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DELICATE, BACKWARD, PUNY, 



AND 



STUNTED CHILDREN: 

Their Developmental Defects, and Physical, Mental, 

and Moral Peculiarities considered as Ailments 

Amenable to Treatment by Medicines, 



J. COMPTON BURNETT, M. D. 




PHILi 5 
BOERICKE & TAFEL. 
1896, 



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Copyrighted 

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PRINTED BY 

T. B. & H. B. COCHRAN, 

LANCASTER, PA. 



FOREWORD. 



In his daily work the practical phy- 
sician meets with a number of abnormal 
states that are not readily classified: I 
refer more particularly to those ab- 
normal conditions of children that I 
have attempted to indicate in the long 
title of this little treatise. We say of 
certain children that they are delicate, 
backward, peculiar, odd, stunted, puny, 
and the like, without being able exactly 
to state what disease they are suffering 
from. The development of a given 
child receives a shock from a fall or 
fright; or its further growth is arrested 
by some acute disease, such as measles 
or influenza; or a child is glum, taciturn, 
excitable, or what not, and yet people 
hardly know what is wrong or how to set 



iv Foreword. 



about putting the wrong right. Again, 
some children do not see, hear, or speak 
properly; or they are unclean in their 
habits, wet their clothes or their beds, 
and cannot be taught nice, sweet ways 
like their fellows. 

This little work is intended to show 
that such abnormalities depend upon 
physical conditions that can be put 
right by properly chosen remedies, and 
in no other way so well. 

J. COMPTON BURNETT. 



86 W1MP01.B Street, 

Cavendish Square, W., 

Midsummer 1895. 







Delicate, Backward, Puny, 

and 

Stunted Children. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 

'T^HE best treatment of the back- 
wardness of children which 
one usually encounters consists in 
gymnastic, climatic, hygienic, and 
dietetic advantages, together with 
special methods of instruction, all 
of which proceedings may be more 
or less sound and laudable, but in 
many cases they are not sufficient. 
The treatment which I here 
advocate does not exclude any of 



2 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

the before-mentioned measures, but 
is something quite different, viz., 
the use of specific homoeopathic, 
organopathic, and various other 
constitutional remedies systemati- 
cally administered, so as to rectify 
the wrong underlying the said back- 
wardnesses, to cure the diseased 
organs or parts, to rouse them medi- 
cinally from torpidity, or to cure 
the diseases of the individual as an 
entirety, or to get rid of the per- 
verted or other morbid conditions 
due to hereditary diseases and 
taints, or to shocks, falls, blows, fits, 
or other previously overcome acci- 
dents and diseases. The ordinary 
treatment of delicate and backward 
children may be compared to sow- 
ing the seed in unprepared ground 



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which is not scientific, and is also 
inadequate ; whereas I advocate the 
plan of preparing the ground, of 
first putting the actual wrong right 
at the very start, so that the par- 
ticular state which causes us to 
affirm of a given child that he or 
she is delicate or backward, glum 
or excited, may disappear, and give 
place to the normal, so far as that 
may be possible in any given case. 
I regard mental backwardnesses 
as of physical cause and origin, and 
I say that the first step to be taken 
is to alter this physical cause of the 
abnormality, and then to go on to 
the teaching; whereas the poor 
delicate or backward ones either 
lie hopelessly fallow, or are worried 
and crammed with what little they 



4 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

can take in, resulting often in but 
a poor return for all the trouble 
taken in their behalf. 

If a child have, say, an irritable 
brain remaining from some child's 
disease, or from a tendency to 
tuberculosis, or from outgrown 
water on the brain, or inherited 
constitutional taints, the common 
plan is to let the sufferers remain 
educationally fallow, so that no 
'harm be done, and in order that 
they may grow out of their con- 
stitutional weaknesses. That is 
good, as far as it goes. Or they 
are sent to the seaside or other 
specially healthy neighbourhood. 
This is also good, as far as it goes. 
Or they are sent to special schools 
for delicate and backward children, 



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where every advantage is given 
them. This is also good, — aye, 
very good; but it is not enough. 

None of these suffice in them- 
selves, — the actual wrong is very 
apt to remain; the little ones may, 
indeed, mend more or less, but 
the results thus obtained are not 
the best obtainable, and the great 
bulk of such grow up unfit for the 
work of the world, and unfit pro- 
spective parents : though such very 
many of them will, in their turns, 
certainly become, abstract preach- 
ings to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing. To inveigh against the mark- 
ing of the delicate and of the 
diseased is futile: we might as 
well preach to the storm. But if 
we set about really curing the 



6 Delicate ^ Backward, Puny, and 

delicate and the diseased while 
quite young, and then let them 
finish their growth, say at the sea- 
side, we shall in the end get sound 
adults fit for the work of the world, 
and for all the duties of the State 
and of the family. 

How do I know? Simply be- 
cause I have done it myself many 
times during the past twenty years, 
and these pages are intended to call 
attention to the possibilities of cura- 
tive medicine in the various con- 
stitutional delicacies of childhood, 
whether inherited or acquired, or 
both. And the point which I 
would specially lay stress upon is 
this: Cure the constitutional wrong 
as soon as possible, as thus growth 
comes AFTER the cure, and then 



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natural growth may result in com- 
plete normality. For when in the 
case of arrested or retarded develop- 
ment the hindrance is medicinally 
removed before growth is over, we 
get results veritably marvellous, as 
some of my herein narrated cases 
will show. 

The point bears reiterating. A 
given individual does not thrive 
because of a constitutional disease 
or taint blocking the way; now, 
remove the block by the right 
constitutional remedies, and then 
normal developmental power is 
restored, and said individual starts 
off growing, and the backward- 
nesses disappear. 



INRUBBINGS OF Oil, IN CHILDREN 
OF PUNY GROWTH. 

A yf Y very earliest efforts in en- 
deavouring to better the 
puniness of tiny children dates back 
to my student years, when I knew 
very little about any medical sub- 
ject whatever, but I somewhere 
heard or read that puny children 
were much helped in their growth 
by being rubbed with fine oil. I 
think the late Sir James Y. Simpson 
often recommended this proceed- 
ing. Many have lauded the benefits 
to be derived from rubbing in cod- 
liver oil, which I have myself at 



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times made use of, but have long 
since given up as having no ad- 
vantage over the use of fine salad 
oil, which is much less nasty, — the 
smell from the cod oil being very 
objectionable. Rubbing in even 
sweet oil is a rather grimy affair; but 
if properly carried out the griminess 
is very bearable, and there is no 
evil smell. Hence I have long 
since discarded the external* use 
of cod-liver oil, all the advantages 
being derivable from common salad 
oil. As I have mostly used 
homoeopathic remedies as well as 
the inrubbings of sweet oil, it is not 

* Internally it is not the same, for cod- 
liver oil is not only a nutrient, but also 
a homoeopathic (hepatic and pancreatic) 
•remedy. 



io Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

easy for me to prove that any good 
is derivable from such inrubbings ; 
but I affirm from experience, that 
children of puny growth are much 
helped and improved in their 
development thereby. 

In the case of twins it is very 
well known that one of the twain 
is apt to be by much the smaller, 
and this wee one's hold of life is 
not great. It was once my lot to 
be called in to advise in regard to 
such a tiny mite, the stronger of 
the two being a fine specimen, and, 
in the opinion of the family doctor, 
fit to take its chance on the bottle, 
— the babies' bottle, — a bottle, by 
the way, that claims more victims 
than that other bottle we know of. 
Well, I had a wet nurse for my 



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almost infinitesimal charge, and had 
him rubbed* with warm salad oil, 
and kept for long in old oiled 
flannel, and now he is a fine young 
man, — so I am informed by his 
mother, though I have never since 
seen him, — at present serving in 
the Cape Mounted Police. His 
strong twin brother died in infancy 
of marasm, as I am told on the 
same authority. , Here I can only 
affirm — I cannot prove — that the 
wee mite's life was saved by the 
inrubbings of oil, though at first 
he was too weak to take the 
breast. 

But I can almost prove my pre- 

* At first it was really more dabbing than 
nibbing. 



12 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

sent proposition in the following 
narration : — 

There is a family of five children, 
now ranging from ten to two years 
of age, all of whom have been nnder 
my professional care all their little 
lives, and all five have been treated 
individually and otherwise in pre- 
cisely the same manner, with one 
exception, — that is to say, four out 
of the five were more or less puny 
at birth, and these four puny ones 
were oiled daily during the first 
year of their lives, and the fourth — 
the third in the series of five- — was 
so strong and robust at birth that it 
was thought needless to bother 
about the oil. He was not rubbed 
with oil during the first year of his 
life, and now? this robust one is 



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now by far the least fine and strong 
of the series, and this notwithstand- 
ing his having been at birth the 
strongest and most robust, on which 
very account the oilings were 
omitted. In all other respects the 
five have been reared in precisely 
the same manner. 

HOW TO RUB IN THE OIL. 

My plan is as follows: — The 
mother, or nurse, in charge of the 
babe to have a large pinafore of 
flannel, which is not to be too 
frequently washed, but allowed to 
remain oily. She is to be seated 
in front of a good fire, an ample 
screen to be placed at her back to 
keep off the draught. A large 
soup-plate full of fine salad oil to 



14 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

be slightly warmed and standing 
near at hand. The babe to be 
held naked in the lap, and the 
whole of the oil very gently and 
very slowly and playfully rnbbed 
into its entire body, excepting its 
face and hands, and then the babe 
is to be dressed for the night. The 
oily articles of apparel are not to be 
fresh every night, but only changed 
as often as cleanliness demands, 
since it is desirable and beneficial 
for the little patients to sleep in 
their oily things, — this, indeed, is 
part of the idea of the treatment. 
The oilings may be nsed together 
with snch remedial measnres as 
may be judged proper. 



Stunted Children, 15 



POST-NATURAL GROWTH. 

In my introductory remarks 
I have laid great stress on the 
desirability of beginning the cura- 
tive treatment as early as possible ; 
. this needs no further insisting 
upon. But it is curious to note 
that in the case of blighted 
and arrested growth the period of 
growth seems pushed out rather 
than irretrievably gone by, — a cer- 
tain amount of growth being possi- 
ble even at middle life. This post- 
natural growth is presumably pent- 
up developmental power liberated 
by the treatment. Thus a patient 
of mine had hardly any beard on 
one side of his face, but a fair 
quantity on the other. After a 



1 6 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

course of treatment by me, the 
failing beard grew, although patient 
was past forty years of age. Evi- 
dently the power to grow was 
present all the time, but was, so to 
speak, locked up, much as we may 
suppose is the case with people's 
wisdom teeth, which come at such 
different ages that it is difficult to 
say when they are really due. 

Where a portion only of a given 
person's body is arrested in de- 
velopment we see this post-natural 
growth very plainly. The case 
narrated on the following page is 
probably unique. 



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ON A CASE OF UNILATERAL ARREST 
OF DEVELOPMENT — LOPSIDED- 
NESS — ONE-BRE ASTEDNESS : Il- 
lustrating Post-natural Growth. 

On the 1 6th May, 1883, a young 
lady, 16 years of age, was brought 
to me by her father, a clergyman, 
then residing in Kent. He did so 
because I had been mentioning to 
him some interesting curative 
work I had done in the medicinal 
treatment of backwardnesses. 

The most salient point in the 
case was the fact that while the 
right half of her trunk was very 
nicely developed and the right 
breast normal and perfect in form, 
the left bieast was only rudiment- 
ary, like a boy's, the left arm not 



1 8 Delicate, Backzvard, Puny, and 

much more than half its proper size. 
The roof of her moiith was very 
much arched, the left side of her 
face drawn to one side, so that her 
mouth was awry. Her speech very 
imperfect indeed, she being unable 
to articulate, and her sense of hear- 
ing bad, being clearly in a similar 
state of arrested development. She 
began to menstruate at 15, and is 
regular; suffers from frontal head- 
aches, her tongue deeply cracked 
(chopped, fissured). On going over 
this case very carefully, nothing 
seemed to offer any therapeutic cue: 
her parents are well and normal, so 
are her brothers and sisters, and, 
moreover, all well and well-bred. 
Vaccinated? Yes; she was vacci- 
nated at three months of age, but it 



Stunted Children. 19 

did not take well, and hence she was 
done again At this point I mnst 
refer to my little book entitled 
"Vaccinosis and its Cure by 
Thuja" which I beg my readers to 
peruse, and then return to this 
narration. 

Jfy Thuja 30. 

June 13. — On the whole very 
much better; can certainly articu- 
late better, and the head is not so 
much out of the perpendicular. 

Jfc Rep. 

July 11.— The pain in the left 
side is better; she has thread- 
worms; frontal headache gone; 
seems very weak. 

Jfy Ceanothus Am. i x gss., five 

drops in water night and morn- 
ing. 

Ceanothus is a left-sided medicine, 



20 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

— i.e., it acts electively more on the 
left side of the body, and specifically 
on the spleen. 

August 22. — Pain in the side (a 
dull sensation really) is gone; she 
is said to pass shreds from the 
bowels. All agree that she articu- 
lates distinctly better. 

B? Rep. 

September 7. — Thuja occid. C. 

October 17. — Although her side 
continues comfortable, she seems to 
have been ailing more generally in 
herself, and has had some boils. 
Speaks and articulates decidedly 
better. The lopsidedness is much 
less apparent, the left side hav- 
ing grown. Hears very much 
better. 

Ijk Psoricum 30. 



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November 23. — Left side feels 
comfortable ; further great improve- 
ment in her articulation ; less lop- 
sidedness; breathing very rough; 
tonsils are of enormous size; small 
polypus in the left nostril. 

Tfy Euonymin 3** 

January 9, 1884. — Has run 
down; a crack in left angle of 
mouth; piles, and has passed 
thread-worms in great numbers. 

R Tc. Sanguinaria i x , and a 
Tetter turn snuff. 

• February 8. — Lopsidedness still 
noticeable; many seat-worms. 

f& Vaccinin 30. 

March 7. — Much backache; the 
medicine seems to have completely 
upset her; hands and feet very 
cold. 



22 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

J$ Ceanothus i and Hepar 3*. 

April 1 6. — Side better; hands 
and feet no warmer. Has had 
SEVERAL LITTLE BOILS. Still some 
frontal headache; sick in the 
"back;" breathing is better; hear- 
ing a little better. 

B Psorinum 30 and Thuja 30. 

May 16. — On the whole better; 
complains again much of frontal 
headache; is not so straight as she 
was; in the night complains of a 
lnmp in the side, and the side is 
said to swell in the posterior aspect 
of the spleen region. Talks and 
hears better 

Tfy Lueticum CC. 

July 11. — Better than ever before; 
the nocturnal swelling gone; tonsils 
still very large ; is again very deaf; 



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* her breathing is quite changed, and 
is now almost normal ; she talks 
away, and evinces an interest in 
everything; the polypus is smaller. 

^ Rep. 

October 17. — Complains of pain 
in the left breast, and on examining 
I find shingles j ust developing in the 
left side, involving the left mamma. 

1^ Variolin C. 

29. — Cured the pain in the left 
mamma and blighted the shingles 
straightway, and she has been 
wonderfully well altogether. 

^ Rep. 

November 28, 1884. — Is like one 
of the rest for all practical pur- 
poses : her left breast has grown, 
is well formed, and fit for its 
natural function. 



24 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 



TEN YEARS LATER. 

The cure holds good. I had not 
seen the patient during the past ten 
years until a few days since. It 
cannot be maintained that patient 
is absolutely normal, because there 
is some hesitancy and splutter in 
her speech, and she holds her head 
a little on one side, but that is all. 
Very close inspection shows that 
the left breast is a very little smaller 
than the right one, but so very 
slight that no one would notice it 
unless attention were specially 
called to the matter, and the less so 
as the two breasts are very rarely 
of exactly the same size in anybody. 

I call the attention of my readers 
to the breaking out of boils, and to 



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the shingles, both of which pheno- 
mena I regard as constitutional 
strivings, due to the actions of the 
remedies administered. 

Let us remember that cow-pox 
is a vesiculo-pustular disease. The 
arrest of development in this case 
was due, I believe, to vaccinosic 
blight, latent, pent-up vaccinosis. 

When I speak of constitutional 
strivings, I mean that cutaneous 
eruptions are very commonly cura- 
tive in their tendency. 



26 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

PARALYSIS OF LOWER EXTREMI- 
TIES. 

On August 15, 1881, a little 
bundle of yelling humanity was 
brought to me on a pillow, and I 
was told that her father was very 
ill of locomotor ataxy (whereof he 
sometime thereafter died) and that 
she was paralysed of her lower 
extremities, she being then nine 
months old. Her gums were livid 
and were greatly swelled. There 
was a history of a fall three 
months before. The child was 
said to have fallen on the lower 
part of her spine, where one 
sees a considerable swelling, 
bulging in appearance and very 
red. The special feature of the 
case lay in the fact that when- 



Stunted Children. 27 

ever the lower limbs were moved, 
even in the slightest degree, the 
poor wee mite yelled terribly. I 
ordered Thuja 3* and Arsenicum 3 
internally, gave the third tritura- 
tion of Heclce lava with its food, 
and applied very weak Arnica to 
the swelling. 

September 16. — Cries and yells 
as much as ever ; takes her food 
well ; ankles are puffy and swelled ; 
gums purple, fleshy, and swelled ; 
the dorsal swelling is clearly bone; 
perspires much in her head ; very 
restless at night. 

1^ Calcarea carbonica 30 and 
Mercurius 30 internally in alterna- 
tion, and Liquor Calcis P.B. to be 
applied locally. 

September 29. — Continues to cr}^ 



28 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

very much; the gums where the 
new teeth should be are bluish, 
and look like bags; the sternal 
ends of the clavicles are very much 
swelled, as big as large walnuts, — 
in fact, all her epiphyses are more 
or less swelled. 

Ify Thuja 30 and Ca/c. sul. 3*. 

October 10. — Mending decidedly. 

^ Rep., and to be taught to eat 
one ripe pear every day, and to be 
taken to the seaside, and this be- 
cause I regarded the case partly as 
one of land scurvy. 

October 26. — Very great amelio- 
ration. No longer cries when 
moved ; she stretches herself com- 
fortably ; the swelling at the bottom 
of her back is diminishing, and also 
that of the epiphyses; the deep 



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purple aspect of the gums Has 
gone. 

fy Rep. 

November 26. — The back is 
nearly well, so are the clavicles, 
and she has grown five teeth. 

Iy Pulsatilla 1, and go on also 
with the Calc. sulpk. 

December 30. — The child is well, 
ruddy and healthy, but its legs are 
still very weak. Has now seven 
teeth. She had during the next 
four months Silicea 30, Nux 6, 
Psorin. 30, and Lathyrus sativus 3, 
which last was prescribed on May 
8, 1882. I saw her no more for 
ten years. 

TEN YEARS LATER. 

On October 24, 1892. — On this 
c 



30 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

day a nicely-grown, normal girl, 
seemingly about twelve years of 
age, was brought to me by her 
mother to be treated for stuttering. 
It was my former paralysed baby 
patient ! 

I ought to mention that, on my 
advice, this child spent the ten 
years during which I did not see 
her at a very healthy seaside resort. 
She is now at school in London, 
and bears the climate quite well. 



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PUNY GROWTH; MESENTERIC DIS- 
EASE — H YDROCEPH ALISM . 

A puny little boy of 9 years 
of age was brought to me on 
February 23, 1 891, by his parents, 
who were in a very anxious frame 
of mind on account of their little 
son, inasmuch as his next brother 
had just died of tuberculosis of the 
brain coverings. 

Patient was puny, old-mannish, 
pot-bellied, sick, sicky; bad head- 
aches, worse of the frontal region; 
head swelled, face too small-look- 
ing, teeth dirty ; glands everywhere 
feel like nuts ; he feels most sick 
on awakening, better as the day 
wears on; sleeps badly, dreams of 
falling. 



32 Delicate, Backward, Pttny, and 

B? Bacill. C. 

March 24. — Has not been actu- 
ally sick since, but still feels sicky ; 
appetite better, yet still variable; 
sleeps much, better, but he starts. 
He had then in succession Ca/c. 
phos. 3 X , Trifolium pratense #, 
Bacill. 1000, Che lid. 1, Puis. 1, 
etc., till the end of the first year of 
treatment, when, after Levico and 
Calc. hypophos., he is noted in my 
casebook as doing well. 

During the year 1892 the treat- 
ment was steadily contined on the 
same lines, with very slow, gradual, 
and yet steady improvement. 

Likewise during the year 1893, 
in the autumn of which he had a 
gastric attack when he was a 
month under Baptisia, and after 



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that lie was very weakly in his 
abdomen ; notably were the testicles 
noticed to be very small, and the 
boy had no go; a month under 
Aurum metallicum in the third 
centesimal trituration gave his 
whole economy a wonderful start. 

And now,nearly at the end of 1 894, 
he is almost a normal boy, wildly 
roughing it with others in a school 
preparatory for Eton or Harrow. 

That this boy's life was saved by 
the treatment is, humanly speaking, 
certain, and that his physical and 
mental state has been very notably 
ameliorated is willingly conceded 
by all his relatives, one of whom is 
the headmaster of one of our public 
schools, who, in consequence of the 
course of this case, has placed his 



34 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

own very delicate children nnder 
my treatment. 

In this case three remedies acted 
with very striking power — viz., 
BacilL, Aurum, and Frag aria 
vesca 6. The last-named greatly 
improved his mesenteric glands 
and his digestion. 

Midsummer 1895. — Is now a 
fine lad, and quite well. 

I will add that Levico, in 5 to 
10 drop doses, is a valnable inter- 
current help in grave cases where 
there is much debility, notably after 
the searching remedies such as 
Bacilli7ium. 



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CASE OF CONSTITUTIONAL BLIGHT 

DUE TO vaccination; eczema 

AND ASTHMA. 

A boy of 9 was brought to me 
in the month of June 1892 to be 
treated for asthma and eczema, both 
of a severe type. His cough and 
dyspnoea were dreadful, and his 
eczema very distressing. "He ails 
every week, and has to be kept in 
and nursed." His teeth were rudi- 
mentary, imbedded in tartar; his 
tonsils much enlarged ; and noticing 
that his cervical glands on the left 
side were so much worse than 
on the right, the left side being 
where he had vaccination marks, 
I enquired how said vaccination 
had run its course. 



36 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

" Oh, it did not seem to take, and 
the skin came out all over with 
eczema, and he has never got rid 
of it." 

The boy is bent forward, and 
generally ill-grown. 

Iy Thuja occid. 30. 

July 8. — Much better; cough 
much better; skin very rough; very 
moist eczema of left ring-finger. 
Many pips; glands of both sides 
of the neck now equally indurated 
and enlarged. 

^ BacilL CC. 

August 8. — c ' Oh, his teeth look so 
much better, much of the tartar has 
fallen off them;* tonsils swelled." 

*In regard to trie accumulation of tartar 
on the teeth, already in my own first proving 
of Bacillin. , I thereafter noticed the falling-off 



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Tfy Acid, nit, 30. 

Sept. 5. — Glands nearly well; 
eczema about the same ; pretty bad 
of both ring-fingers. 

And thus the treatment went on 
till the fall of 1893, when patient 
ceased attending. He had up to 
that date several nosodes, Thuja 30, 
and for months a course of Bacillin. 
(C, CC, and 1000). 

January 1895. — His half-sister 
informs me that the boy is quite 
well, and thriving beautifully. 

of two or three cakes of tartar from my lower 
incisors (never before or since); and in many 
of my published cases this curious influence of 
Bacillin. has been noticed. 



38 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

BLIGHTED BY SUPPRESSED RING- 
WORM. 

Young organisms are stunted by 
many acute diseases : this no one 
denies; "he has never got over the 
effects of the measles." It is an 
often-told and ever-believed story — 
That vaccination very frequently 
blights the young organisms. I 
have often shown, and do now 
solemnly re-affirm, that the sup- 
pression of common ringworm fre- 
quently also blights the organisms 
of the sufferers: by suppressed I 
mean the ordinary external wash- 
and-scour method of ridding the 
outside of the body of the outside 
manifestations of the malady, the 
inward disease-essence remaining 
choked-up within. 



Stunted Children. 39 

A stunted little maid of 12% 
years was brought to me on June 
27, 1892, because she was under- 
sized and deaf. The glands under 
the right ear are indurated and en- 
larged ; her tongue pippy ; she is 
dusky in the neck. Patient had had 
ringworm for two years, and when 
that was cured (?) , she went deaf. 
She has been twice vaccinated. 

1^ B acill. 30. 

July 25. — She has begun to 
grow! 

1^ Rep. 

August 26. — Her teeth are 
clearing. 

lb. CC. 

September 26. — Is growing ; 
hearing much better; teeth getting 
cleaner and of a better colour. 



40 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

lb. C. 

And thus the treatment was con- 
tinned till the summer of 1893, at 
which date I find in my case-records 
the following note: — " Has grown 
enormously; her glands are better; 
still deaf;" since when I have not 
seen her, but quite lately I heard 
from her mother that patient is in 
good health and away at school at 
the seaside, but she is still hard of 
hearing. 



Stunted Children, 41 



PUNY GROWTH, NOCTURNAL FRIGHT 
AND DEAFNESS. 

On February 21, 1887, Edwin 
was brought to me for bis puny 
growth, deafness, and habitual 
alarming fright at night. In aspect 
Edwin was thin, very bony, flat- 
chested, and his skin "nothing but 
veins," so to speak. In both groins 
and in both sides of his neck very 
numerous hypertrophied glands 
were discernible ; and, as if to be 
quite certain of physical destruc- 
tion, he was the slave of a certain 
secret habit. He was brought to me 
about every month for three years, 
and was then discharged cured, and 
he has since taken, and still main- 
tains, a very high position iu his 



42 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

chosen profession. He had from 
me dnring the first year — Lueticum 
CC, Thuja 30, and then Aurum 
muriaticum natronatum 3*, (Pyro- 
genium 6, Psorin. 30, and Bacillt- 
num 30; and by this time he had 
improved in every way, — his nights 
were good, the frights disappeared, 
he began to be less veiny and to 
grow, and his deafness had dis- 
appeared. He had fonght manfully 
against his evil habit with partial 
success. 

In the second year he had several 
months of BacilL C, Sabina 30, 
Platina 30, Fragaria vesca 0; and 
at the end of it his physique and 
morale were much improved, and I 
find in his case-record at this date 
the significant word, clean. Some 



Stunted Children. 43 

of the same remedies were repeated 
during the third year, until he was 
discharged, as above stated, cured. 
Pyrogenium 6, three drops in water 
night and morning, continued until 
a two-drachm bottle was taken, 
appeared to cause his nose to bleed. 
Edwin continues to thrive to date, 
but is still shy and taciturn, but so 
is his mother. As to the habit ot 
self-abuse, which was a great ob- 
stacle in this case, I shall refer to 
that later on, under a separate head- 
line. Here I would just remark 
that, according to my experience, 
the thing is most commonly physi- 
cal disease, — evil rather than vice or 
sinfulness. In fact, it is an aberration 
purely in the animal sphere rather 
than sin on the spiritual plane. 



44 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 
GLUMNESS; A TACITURN BOY. 

There is a certain type of child 
■ — more frequently boys than girls 
— who hang their heads and who 
will not willingly answer questions 
put to them, and who will not talk 
if they can help it. The boy in ques- 
tion was brought to me on May 
21, 1892, and although reputedly 
in good health, he hung his head 
habitually and refused to talk. In 
asylums this kind of individual is a 
familiar sight. Such people will sit 
for hours together bent forward and 
looking steadfastly at nothing, and 
when spoken to they vouchsafe no 
reply, — they are just mum ; though 
if irritated will fly at you. Al- 
though fifteen years of age he still 



Stunted Children. 45 

had a lady to accompany him every- 
where, and to whom he was greatly 
attached. He gave no answers to 
my various questions, only assent- 
ing very decidedly to the lady's 
statement that he suffered greatly 
from headaches. At his school he 
was considered a dullard, and no 
one ever heard of his even wishing 
to distinguish himself or get a prize. 
The headaches were over his eyes ; 
his tongue was white, with many 
red pips imbeded in the thick coat- 
ing. He had been twice vaccinated, 
he tanned unduly in the sun, and 
his superficial inguinal glands were 
hypertrophied ; testicles small. 

1^ Tc. Fragaria vesca i x , ten 
drops in water night and morning. 
This was given on account of the 

D 



46 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

state of the tongue, and with such 
a tongue the Fragaria is a very 
notable stomachic, the headache 
being evidently from the state of 
the abdominal glands. Under its 
influence the boy visibly improved 
in every way: his headaches be- 
came much less severe, and he 
looked brighter ; moreover, he held 
himself better, and would answer 
questions sometimes. 

This was followed b}^ Thuja 
occid. 30, and after this he had no 
more headaches at all. 

After that he had BacilL CC, 
Puis. 1, and finally, on account of 
his poor testicular development, 
he was a month under Aurum 
metallicum, third trituration, which 
effectively righted that wrong and 



Stunted Children, 47 

he forthwith took a proper position 
in his school, and at the next prize 
distribution he greatly astonished 
those who had known him by 
carrying off several prizes. He 
afterwards called to say good-bye 
to me, and gleefully told me of his 
triumphs. He had ceased to be 
mum or peculiar. 

A year later his father accosted 
me at London Bridge Railway 
Station, and expressed his great 
satisfaction at Tom's capital con- 
dition. 



48 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 



SPINAL CURVATURE; STUNTED 
GROWTH. 

In the spring of 1894 a boy of 
ten years and a half of age, of fairly 
good weight, viz., 4 st. 8 lb., but in 
height only 4 feet 3 inches, was 
brought to me by his mother (her- 
self for many years a sufferer from 
spinal disease), on account of slight 
spinal curvature and stunted 
growth, or, perhaps, I should rather 
say backward growth. He had the 
too-wide and too-stodgy aspect of 
such a condition. An examination 
revealed indurated and hypertro- 
phied glands in both sides of the 
neck and in both groins, and very 
small testes indeed. This boy had 
a somewhat pleasing but peculiar 



Stunted Children. 49 

aspect and manner that I have 
occasionally seen in boys whose 
testicular development is backward. 
I first noticed it in such a boy in a 
Continental hospital many years 
ago, and have never forgotten it : 
once seen always remembered, but 
very difficult to describe. I would 
say that there is an unusual open- 
ness and frankness in their gaze 
and approach, too much empresse- 
ment, a full-of-confidence, jump- 
down -your- throat, meaningless, 
laughing unconsciousness that is 
very striking, and not entirely 
pleasant. 

This boy had from me, in a six 
months' course of treatment, Tub. 
/est.C] BacilL 30; Thuja 30; and 
Aurum metallicum, third tritura- 



50 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

tion; and during that time he had 
taken to growing, and the following 
letter from his mother tells the rest: 

" Sept. 5th. 
"Dear Dr. Burnett, — My little 
boy's school opens on Sept. 25. 
I suppose he is now well enough to 
return to his w^ork ? He continues 
to grow and look well, and the 
difference in the appearance of his 
back is perfectly magical to me, to 
whom this weakness has always 
been a trouble. You certainly have 
given him exactly the help needed, 
and I am truly grateful. The other 
two boys are both benefiting, the 
younger more especially. The neck 
gland is not visible to me now. I 
say to me, because I seem to notice 
these things more than the others, 



Stunted Children. 51 

and realize their importance. — Be- 
lieve me, with many thanks." 

And, again, in June 25, 1895, the 
mother writes me : — 

" I was at Eastbourne for a school 
festivity, and saw L., who looks 
splendid, so much so, that I think 
you need scarcely see him before 
his holidays; but he has no more 
powders, and I wondered if you 
would kindly send him another 
box to go on with. I do not want 
him to stand still, but to an ordi- 
nary eye he is in perfect health. 

"I shall see G. at Harrow on the 
3rd July. 

" I remain, with many grateful 
thanks." 



52 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 



puny growth; spinal curva- 
ture; ACNE. 

A young lady, 22 years of age, 
was brought by her mother to me 
on May 6, 1890, for her spine, 
and what might be termed general 
puniness, and for which there 
seemed no assignable reason. In 
her face we saw a large spider 
nsevus,* and the skin of her 
shoulders was the seat of a fair 
crop of acne pustules. Her spine 
was curved, but it was that kind 
which ought, I think, to be called 
lopsidedness, and which is in reality 
an undue preponderance of the 

* Spider naevi generally disappear under 
Thuja 30, long used and ^frequently re- 
peated. 



Stunted Children. 53 

right half of the body over the 
left; and the spinal cnrvatnre is 
due to the pulling over of the 
muscles of the stronger side. It 
is not really a spine affection at all : 
the great bulk of the "spines" of 
young ladies are of this nature. 
Patient stoops a good deal, and 
squints a very little. This case is 
the type of very many, and they 
arise from malnutrition of the 
(commonly) left half of the body. 
In observing the mode of growth 
of children, I have often remarked 
that their strong parts, so to 
speak, grab the nourishment first, 
and thus, if too little is absorbed 
and assimilated, the weaker parts 
go short.. I will narrate a case that 
bears this out by-and-by. 



54 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

As this young lady's left side 
was at fault, and as she had been 
vaccinated on the left side, and was 
suffering from squint and acne, and 
her spleen being, moreover, swelled, 
I began with Thuja 30, and then 
continued with Be His perennis 0, 
of which latter she took altogether 
an ounce. She was under these 
two remedies for about a year. 

Then followed, in the order 
named, Viscum album 1, Fragaria 
vesca 0, Bryonia alba 0, Saw 
Palmetto (with vast benefit), 
and I shortly afterwards heard 
that she was engaged to be 
married. 



Stunted Children, 55 



STUNTED GIRL. " 

An anaemic, dusky, undersized 
mite of a girl was brought by 
her mother to me on August 

29, 1888, for debility. She had 
had hepatitis; her incisors were 
markedly notched, she suffered 
much from toothache and croup, 
and her superficial glands were 
greatly hypertrophied, and, finally, 
she was much plagued with oxyures. 
During the first nine months she 
had Lueticum CC, Bacillinum C. 
Condurango 1, Sabina 3, and Thuja 

30, and during that period gained 
7 lbs. in weight, and she looked 
much better and was notably 
brighter. 

Then followed Pulsatilla 1, 



56 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

Ferrum picricum 3*, Psorin. 30, 
Nux vomica 1, when a further 
increase of a pound in weight 
was noted, and the seat-worms 
had ceased from troubling. Some 
other remedies were then given, 
notably Rubia tinctoria and 
Hydrastis Canadensis #, and my 
last note of her case is dated 
February 26, 1890, and runs thus: 
"Vastly improved, and now weighs 
4 st. 6 lbs." 

By the way, Rubia tinctoria is 
an excellent remedy in splenic 
anaemia. I usually give 10 drops 
of the strong tincture three times 
a day. 



Stunted Children. 57 



ARRESTED GROWTH ; CHRONIC 
SWELLING OF THE SPLEEN ; 
PERITONITIS AND DROPSY. 

An extremely freckled , dusky, 
dropsical lad of 16 years of 
age was brought by his father 
to me on October 7, 1881, to be 
treated for . . . . " He is in a very 
bad way, and has dropsy in his 
stomach." As a babe he nearly 
died from the bottle, his mother 
being unable to suckle him, when 
a good wet nurse was obtained, 
and he grew fatter and stronger 
than his brothers and sisters, and 
was doing well until two years ago, 
when he was at school at the sea- 
side, and there one day was caught 
in a storm, and ran home a distance 



58 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

of two miles, thereby hurting his 
left side, from which he has never 
really recovered ; it has pained him 
ever since. He has ascites, his 
micturition is painful, there is a 
kind of chronic diarrhoea, and 
although sixteen years of age 
there is not the faintest sign 
of pubescence. His spleen and 
liver notably enlarged, his face 
thin, his chest bony and very 
veiny, teeth notched, tongue thin 
and cracked, abdomen distended 
with water, the skin dirty-looking 
and earthy, glands in the groins 
enlarged, and legs thin, almost like 
long sticks. 

Clearly his abdominal glands 
were diseased, and the outlook 
was very gloomy. 



Stunted Children. 59 

In such a case one hardly knows 
where to begin. What struck me 
was the enormous number of 
freckles on his face, and as I 
had a few times succeeded in 
ameliorating that condition with 
Badiaga, I put patient on that 
remedy for two months (1 and 3 X 
each for one ilionth), with the 
result that his freckled state 
lessened, and patient who had 
weighed 6 st. 9^ lbs., came down 
to 6 st. 4 lbs.; but whether this 
diminution was a good sign or a 
bad one we could not readily deter- 
mine, because it might have been 
from loss of flesh or from less 
water within the abdominal cavity. 
Damp weather made his diarrhoea 
worse, and he had now taken to 



60 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

wetting his bed. As lie was dis- 
tinctly worse in the wet and damp, 
I gave him the fourth trituration of 
Nat. suL, and of that 6 grains three 
times a day. After this, on January 
4, 1882, his weight was 6 st. 3 lbs , 
and he had ceased wetting his bed. 

Still very distinct ascites. 

Iy Ceanothus 1. 

January 12. — Weight, 6 st. 1 lb. 

^ Thuja 30. 

January 20. — He is worse; the 
drospy is increased, and the whole 
of the belly is very tender. 

Iy Psorinum 30. 

February 1. — The diarrhoea has 
ceased; weight, 5 st. 13 lbs.; belly 
so very tender that he can no 
longer bear the jolting of the 
carriage. During this month he 



Stunted Children. 6 1 

had Calc. carb. 30, Colocynth 6, 
and the second trituration of the 
Iodide of Arsenic, and at its end 
weighed just 6 stones. 

He went on all March, April, 
and May under Berberis vulgaris 
3 X , Ammon. carb. 3, Dioscorin 3 X , 
Dioscorea 3% Argentum nitricum /, 
Nux vomica 3 X , and then Merc, 
iod. cum Kali tod.) 3 X trit., and on 
June 5 the body- weight was 5 st. 
6 lbs., and patient was still almost 
as ill as ever. And what rendered 
it so very difficult to really gauge 
our patient was the diminution in 
his weight, viz., whether was that 
less flesh or less dropsy. 

1^ Lueticum CC. was at last 
determined upon, and straightway 
improvement set in. 



62 Delicate \ Backward, Puny, and 

June 26. — Much better all round. 
Weight, 5 st. 5^ lbs. ; measures 24 
in. round the belly; sleeps better. 

tyRep, 

July 12. — Weight, 5 st. 5 lbs. 
He looks cleaner, whiter, (less 
brown) . The change in the colora- 
tion of his abdomen is marvellous ; 
it is now not very much too dusky, 
and the belly is very much less 
tender; glands less prominent. 

Jfy Rep., et Hepar suL 3*. 

He was discharged as being in 
a normal condition on February 8, 
1883. 

On September 12, 1883, he saw 
the late Dr. Dunn, formerly of 
Doncaster, who was then acting 
for me during my holiday, for 
" Enlarged inguinal glands, painful; 



Stunted Children, 63 

Hepar sulph." which words I see 
in my case-book in dear old Dunn's 
handwriting. 

ELEVEN YEARS LATER. 

Patient is now a busy city man 
in good health and condition, and 
just on the point of getting married: 
u As soon as business gets a bit 
better," in his own words. 

This young man's mother had 
water on the brain as a child, 
whereof the shape of her head 
still bears eloquent testimony. 



64 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

puny growth; ringworm of 
shoulder, and chronic in- 
SOMNIA. 

A little lassie of 8 years of age 
was brought by her mother to me 
on November 21, 1892, because 
she was weedy, pale, non-thriving, 
sleepless and restless at night, 
grinding her teeth, etc. The 
delicacy appeared to date from 
chronic diarrhoea from which she 
suffered a good deal as a baby. 
Her teeth were not growing pro- 
perly, and her lymphatic glands 
were indurated and feelable in neck 
and groins. 

B acillinumQsQ,., C, and 30, Thuja 
30, and Tub. test. C, were the 
principal remedies I employed in 
the case, and after a few months 



Stunted Children. 65 

much improvement set in. Patient 
sleeps well. After two years the 
young patient was quite a fine 
girl, although in my j udgment still 
too pale, which I ascribe to the 
state of the air of the neighbour- 
hood in greater London, where 
she resides. What the child now 
really requires is a few years' resi- 
dence at the seaside, by preference 
the first year or so at Worthing, 
the second at Brighton, and then 
a year or two at Eastbourne or 
Folkestone. 

The grandest results in the treat- 
ment of backward children are 
obtainable when the constitutional 
bars to physical and mental com- 
pletion are medicinally removed, 
and THEN the full effects of food 



66 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

and air crown the edifice. I do 
not mean that food and fresh air 
are at any time unimportant, but 
what I do maintain is that disease 
taints in children are NOT curable 
by any air or any DIET whatever. 
The power of the organism to resist 
them may, however, be much in- 
creased. I will, later on, exemplify 
what I mean by narrating the case 
of a toothless boy at Eastbourne. 
When I name certain places as 
suitable for delicate children, it is 
to be borne in mind that I am 
writing in London, whence said 
places are readily accessible. 



Stunted Children, 6 J 

TOOTHLESSNESS, RICKETS, RING- 
WORM, PUNY GROWTH, AND UGLI- 
NESS. 

By toothlessness I mean that 
the patient, a little girl of 7 years 
of age, who was brought to me in 
the winter of 1893, had only very 
rudimentary bits of something im- 
bedded in tartar where the teeth 
ought to have been. Her hair, too, 
was very, very weak, thin, dry, and 
she had patches of ringworm, with 
areas of " Diffuse Ringworm" (Alder 
Smith) here and there on her scalp, 
worse on the left side. Numerous 
superficial glands, indurated and 
enlarged. In general aspect the 
child was puny and very ugly. I 
put her on the treatment set forth 
in my little work on "Ringworm," 



68 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

and a year later (she was on tlie 
remedy a full year, and on no 
other, but at longish intervals be- 
tween the doses, and all of the 
thirtieth centesimal potency) her 
mouth was full of teeth, her hair 
had grown, and the little maid 
looked positively pretty, as one 
would expect from her young and 
good-looking parents. Her teeth 
are not yet white, and only poorly 
covered with dentine, but still she 
has a mouthful of teeth, and they 
will certainly go on improving in 
quality. No trace of ringworm or 
scrofula left, but the hair is still 
lacking in gloss. 

Midsummer 1895. — Continues 
very thriving. 



Stunted Children. 69 

RUDIMENTARY TEETH IN A BOY OF 
ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE; DIURNAL 
AND NOCTURNAL ENURESIS, AND 
PIGEON-BREASTEDNESS. 

A rather fine-grown boy of 1 1 
years of age was brought to me on 
October 3, 1893, because of his 
teeth, and for life-long enuresis. 
"The dentist says he can do 
nothing, as his teeth have not 
properly grown, and what little of 
the teeth is above the gums is 
almost all covered with tartar." 
So it was; moreover, the nose 
and naso-pharynx were crammed 
full of adenoids, and his tonsils 
were large, hence no one will be 
surprised to learn that he was also 
slightly pigeon-breasted. 



70 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

This kind of rudimentary teeth, 
one meets with pretty commonly in 
delicate children. The teeth have 
really not grown properly, and the 
little tips of teeth do not look like 
proper teeth at all, but like little 
spikes of tartar; they do not appear 
to have any enamel at all. I have 
already related cases of cure of this 
miserable state, so I need not unduly 
dwell upon this one. I last saw 
patient in April 1894, when he 
could breathe comfortably through 
his nose, the pigeon-breastedness 
was almost a thing of the past, the 
tonsils had gone down a good deal, 
and his mouth was full of teeth — 
perfectly good? No, not perfectly 
good, but still very passable. The 
young man had Thuja 30, BacilL 



Stunted Children. 71 

30, Tub. test. C, and then two 
others. I may see him again before 
this goes to press, and if I do I will 
add a note of any further progress 
he may have made since from the 
effects of the stock of medicines 
which I ordered for him when they 
went abroad in the summer. But 
probably I shall not see him further 
unless he goes back in his health in 
someway. I should have stated that 
the patient no longer wets his bed 
or his clothes, — which he had been 
in the habit of doing all his life to 
his own intense mortification. By 
the way, some parents chastise or 
scold their children for wetting 
their garments and bed . . . why 
not scold and chastise them for 
getting the measles? There was 



72 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

another point in this case that 
was very dreadful — viz., the boy's 
motions stank horribly : this soon 
disappeared under the treatment 
which I have just detailed. I will 
now narrate another case similar 
in some respects to the foregoing, 
and yet quite different, and which 
clearly shows that fresh air and 
ample feeding are not of them- 
selves capable of curing disease or 
disease-taints which bar develop- 
ment: Fresh air cannot cure 

DISEASE. 



Stimted Children. 73 

CASE OF TOTAL ABSENCE OF FRONT 
UPPER INCISOR TEETH. 

On July 27, 1893, a small, 
thin, narrow-chested, drum-bellied, 
stunted boy of 8}4 years of age, son 
of a staff officer, was brought to me 
for his pining delicate state; he had 
no upper incisors at all, though one 
could see them shaped in the gums; 
his lips peeled very readily and 
constantly (so did the lips in the 
just narrated case !) ; his motions 
stank dreadfully; he wet his clothes 
by day and his bed by night, and 
he was a ravenous eater. 

At the moment at which I am 
writing he has been just eighteen 
months under my care, and he is 
now the happy possessor of good 
teeth ; and he is in all respects 



74 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

about normal, except that lie still 
wets himself, and the glands in his 
groins are still feelably indurated 
and enlarged. The treatment was 
the same as the last, except that 
he was also two months under 
MaL 30 and C. 

His teeth are now very good, 
and of an excellent colour. The 
foul-smelling motions of delicate 
children are so distressing for those 
in charge of them that this alone 
urgently needs curing; but the cure 
must be vital and constitutional : 
using deodorants and disinfectants 
to the dejecta does not cure the 
unfortunate patients. 

This boy had been sent to East- 
bourne to reside, but his teeth did 
not grow till the disease-taint had 
been cured by medicines. 



Stunted Children. 75 



IMPERFECT SENSE OF SMELL, DAN- 
GEROUS PERIODICAL NOSE-BLEED 
IN AN UNDERSIZED GIRL OF 
ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE. 

A stumpy, undersized girl of 11 
years of age, of good parentage, 
was brought to me on June 19, 
1889, for periodical epistaxis of 
three years' duration , that had 
latterly become alarming in extent, 
necessitating nose-plugging. " She 
loses a great deal of blood, and the 
doctor says that her life is in 
danger, and that an operation on 
the nose -is the only hope of a 
cure." The child had had diarrhoea, 
varicella, measles, whooping-cough, 
and sore throats, and had been 



76 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

once vaccinated. She resides with 
lier parents in a notedly healthy 
country place. 

Patient was naturally anaemic 
from the haemorrhages, her nose 
ached ; incisors slightly notched ; 
there is pretty severe nasal catarrh, 
and she gets rid of a good deal of 
" thick yellow stuff" from the 
nostrils. 

^ Thuja occid. 30. 

July 15. — Less bleeding; bad 
croupy cough. A slight " shew." 

^ BacilL C. 

August 21. — No bleeding at all, 
and patient is very well. 

^ Rep. 

September 16. — No bleeding; but 
has a taste of blood in her mouth, 
particularly when she sneezes. No 



Stunted Children. J J 

cough. Her teeth are ot a bad 
colour. 

^ Z«*/. CC. 

October 25. — Epis taxis twice, but 
much less profuse than formerly; 
her tongue is very long and very 
pippy. 

^ Bacill. CC. 

November 22.— Noepistaxis, but 
a prickling in the nose, as if it were 
going to come on. A bad cough. 

Iy Calc. phos. 3 X . 

February 12, 1890. — She has 
grown and spread out in size; no 
cough ; no nose bleed. Practically 
well, but still rather stunted. 

ty Pulsatilla 2. 

October 29. — Has greatly grown; 
one or two attacks of bleeding ; 
right nostril very sore. 



78 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

December 17. — Well. 

Feb7'uary 29, 1892. — Well. The 
medical men who treated this case 
before I did, and who very loudly pro- 
claimed the impossibility of its cure 
by any means whatsoever except 
an operation on the nose of a rather 
severe nature, and who, moreover, 
ridiculed any attempt to cure the 
same with medicines — these medi- 
cal men have not been converted to 
homoeopathy by my success, but 
many of their neighbours have. 
Allopathy is in an advanced stage 
of senile decay, from which there is 
no recovery, and the sooner the 
general break-up comes the better 
for mankind. Thus, here is a young 
girl with dangerous nose-bleed of 
long standing slowly getting worse 



Stunted Children. 79 



till lier very life is threatened; 
allopathy plugs the nares, and 
afterwards administers tonics, and 
finally , in the despair of the debility 
of senile decay, gives the case over 
to the surgeons, who propose waging 
war upon the poor nose according 
to the principles of rhinology (one 
of the occult sciences of modern 
medicine) , while all the time it is a 
constitutional disease that causes 
the haemorrhage, and it is not a 
nasal disease at all ! 

THREE YEARS LATER. 

Patient continues quite well. 



80 Delicate, Backward, Ptmy, and 

MISSHAPEN HEAD; ADULT MENTAL 
INFANCY OF A MAN TWENTY- 
SEVEN YEARS OF AGE. 

A big-grown man, 27 years of 
age, was put under my tratment 
in May 1889 by his relatives on the 
strength of my opinion that he 
might be rendered more or less 
normal by medicinal treatment, 
notwithstanding the fact that he 
was 27 years of age and still men- 
tally infantile. Looking at him full 
in the face, one noticed his fore- 
head was very bulging; no eye- 
lashes; a dull expression ; general 
headform abnormal. The history 
is that of " water in the head as a 
child," and that he has never been 
"like others;" his sisters say " he 



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is soft," and call him " daft." Being 
unable to do any head-work, he 
has had none to do, but has re- 
mained mentally fallow, and hence, 
though the son of gentle folks, is 
quite illiterate. The skin of his 
head seems to him to be very tight, * 
whereof he complains a good deal ; 
also of pain both in his forehead 
and at the back; his skin is very 
dusky ; a number of his symptoms 
are aggravated at night. I ex- 
amined him very closely, and roused 
his interest in his own case. He 
was in no sense insane, but clearly 
had plenty of mind; but it was 
hidden behind a cloud. He would 

* Most probably a physical fact primarily 
due to the watery state of the encephalon. 



82 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

seize his scalp in his hands and 
tell me impressively that it was too 
tight, and he complained of being 
such a heavy sleeper, and of not 
being able to do anything at figures 
or any u head-work." 

I call very special attention to 
this case, because it fully illustrates 
my contention that lying mentally 
fallow is not the proper treatment 
for juvenile cephalic invalids. This 
young man, being the son of gentle- 
folks of means, position, and intelli- 
gence, was allowed to lie mentally 
fallow all his life on medical advice, 
and he certainly grew up all right 
except for his dunderheadeduess. 
Not only so, but he had an outdoor 
life, and when a full-grown man he 



Stunted Children. 83 

was, on advice, sent out to a colony 
with a very bracing, invigorating 
climate to rongh it, and lie carried 
out the thing so completely that he 
worked for long at heavy, rough 
outdoor work, quite getting his 
own living at felling timber and 
heavy farm work ; it considerably 
strengthened his body, but he, at 
the time of which I am writing, 
had just returned from his long 
absence u roughing it," as dunder- 
headed as he ever was. Now, 
note the effect of treatment. 

The first remedy was Luet. CC, 
which was followed by u an irrita- 
tion of hands and face that keeps 
him awake by nig Jit ; it burns ; 
does not trouble him by day." 



84 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

His head is better ! 

Thuja 30 followed, and seemed 
to try him a good deal. He had 
been twice vaccinated. 

He then had Nux vomica, and 
after that BacilL C, and here he 
began to learn arithmetic, his head 
being so much better; and in Sep- 
tember the first prescription was 
repeated. 

October 23. — Getting quite 
strong ; pigeon-breastedness much 
less pronounced. He is getting 
on well with his learning "the 
three R's." 

Iy Morbillin, 30. 

November 27. — Is now enjoying 
his learning, principally writing 
and arithmetic. 

Tfy BacilL C, Zincum aceticum 3 X 5 



Stunted Children. 85 

Thuja 30, Calc.phos. 3*, etc., carried 
us on to the yean 891, when patient 
had so far progressed in his learning 
that he obtained a berth in a city 
financiers office, where he still 
continues earning his living at head 
work entirely ! 

The foregoing case very aptly 
illustrates the thesis which I am 
here trying to maintain, viz., that it 
does not suffice to leave the delicate 
and backward in a fallow condition, 
trusting to their " growing out " of 
their maladive conditions, for they 
are nearly as likely to grow into 
them as to grow out of them. This 
young man remained mentally 
fallow so far as learning was con- 
cerned, and he made no mental 



86 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

progress. His muscles were used, 
for these were well exercised ; his 
brain did not improve, for it lay 
fallow. It was allowed to lie fallow 
because it was unfit to work, and 
no doubt it was wise not to work it 
in its unfit state; but that did not 
suffice. 

You cannot grow a good biceps 
by carrying your arm in a sling, 
neither can you cultivate brain- 
power by leaving the brain idle. 
Muscle-power is gained by muscular 
exercise; brain-power is gained by 
brain exercise And if the brain is 
in a morbid state, the malady from 
which it is suffering must be cured, 
whereafter the brain may be safely 
exercised and thereby strengthened. 
Muscle-exercise does not directly 



Stunted Children. 87 

strengthen the brain, neither does 
brain-exercise strengthen the mus- 
cles: due exercise of each duly 
develops each; over-exercise of 
either is at the cost of the other. 
A given organism can produce only 
so much and no more. Great brain 
workers are not muscular; great 
muscle-workers are not at the same 
time capable of great brain work ; 
it is impossible, all cackle to the 
contrary notwithstanding. 

It is of prime importance to keep 
the foregoing lesson well in mind. 
I say great brain-workers cannot 
at the same time be great muscle- 
workers. It is not maintained that 
an individual of great muscular 
power may not at the same time be 



88 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

a big-brained, highly-intellectual 
person. What I maintain is, that I 
never yet met a person who excelled 
in both. Gladstone is a great 
brain-worker, and can fell a tree ; 
but I do not believe that Gladstone 
would ever have taken a high 
position in a competition with 
wood - choppers or woodmen of 
eminence on their own lines ; and 
half a glance at his structure shows 
that he was never particularly 
muscular. 

A given organism can only pro- 
duce a given amount of energy 
and no more. Dr. Grace, the 
great cricketer, will not go down 
to posterity as a great physician, 
just as light-weights do not make 
good coal-heavers, nor do the best 



Stunted Children. 89 

coal-heavers excel in Jight and 
elegant movement of body or 
swiftness of foot. To each his own 
excellence. 

GIRLS AND BOYS. 

The same thing applies to the 
question of the relative powers of 
girls and boys, and most of what 
is commonly said on this point is 
nothing but weak twaddle. Only 
the Almighty can make a New 
Woman. Put broadly, up to the 
. age of puberty, the girl, all other 
things being equal, beats the boy ; 
with puberty the damsel throws 
away every month a vast amount 
of fluid power in the order of 
Nature, Let us call this pelvic 
power. Assuming the girl to be 



. 90 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

the superior of the boy up to 
the pelvic power stage, — which, 
indeed, any one can observe for 
himself, in his own sphere, — but 
once arrived at the stage of pelvic 
power, and the damsel is left behind 
in her lessons by her brother in the 
natural order of things, or else the 
girl's brain saps the pelvis of its 
power, when she will also lose in 
the race with the boy, because he 
will be physically well, while she, 
with disordered pelvic life, must 
necessarily be in ill-health more or 
less. The whole thing is a mere 
question of quantity of energy. If 
it were otherwise, the girl would 
be able to buy lollypops with her 
penny and yet keep her penny ; 
while the boy, having spent his 



Stunted Children. 91 

penny, would be penniless. You 
cannot spend your penny and liave 
it. 

The New Woman is only possible 
in a novel, not in Nature. The 
intellectual Sandow is also im- 
possible, and for the same reason : 
too much on one side of the scales 
conditions too little on the other. 
I have very many times watched 
the careers of exceedingly studious 
girls who spent the great mass of 
their power in mental work, and 
in every case the pelvic power 
decreased in even pace with the 
expenditure of mental power. Not 
one exception to this have I ever 
seen, and all the lady students of 
the higher grades whom it has been 
my duty to professionally advise 



92 Delicate, Backward, Puny, a7id 

were suffering in regard to their 
pelvic lives and power. I have sat 
at the foot of Nature a good many 
years, and I give as my opinion 
that to be a mother in its best 
sense is the biggest thing on earth, 
and comes nearer the Creator's 
work than anything else under 
heaven ; to be a learned girl or 
woman graduate is a very good 
and respectable thing enough, and 
twelve of them make a dozen. 

At the same time, genius has 
no gender ; it can be in a female 
or in a male, as the case may be. 



Stunted Children. 93 

HUNCHBACK. 

A lady brought her 11-year old, 
greatly-deformed son to me on 
January 29, 1886. I noted that 
patient was frightfully deformed; 
at his birth both his collar-bones 
were broken, and had united with- 
out ever having been set. His 
mother had taken this, her only 
son, to many doctors — surgeons 
and physicians — of the highest 
repute. She says 200 ! He was 
strapped up in a very formidable 
and efficient iron jacket, and he 
has had all the advantages of our 
best orthopaedic hospitals. 

His belly is like a bulging pot. 
His spine is bent from side to side, 

G 



94 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

the left scapular region forming 
the hunch. 

Patient is very thin; liver much 
enlarged; macrocephalic head; skin, 
notably at certain points, very 
dusky; many indurated glands in 
the usual places; teeth literally 
rotten. 

^ Luet. CC. 

March 12. — Has been very much 
relaxed in his bowels from the 
powders; complexion already much 
cleaner, and the skin of his body 
less dusky. Belly has gone down. 

fy Rep-. 

April 16. — Better; skin less 
dusky; suffers very much from 
hiccup , lasting at times half an hour. 

^ Med. 30. 

July 12. — Hiccup cured; the lad 



Stunted Children. 95 

stronger and less crooked. An- 
orexia. Nux vomica, 3*. 

October 20. — Has grown very 
much; the skin of his body is still 
very "browny," though less so than 
formerly. No hiccup. 

ty Luet. CC. 

December 3. — No return of the 
hiccup; skin very much less dusky; 
is growing much straighter ; but 
his glands are still visible, and like 
chains of kernels. 

ty Psor. 30. 

January 12, 1887. — Has a cold; 
strawberry tongue ; but generally 
he is thriving. 

^ Puis. 3 X . 

February 16. — Tongue is better ; 
has hiccup twice a day, but has 
had a better appetite. 



96 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

^ Med. CC. 

April 4. — Still has hiccup; he is 
pale. 

^ Luet. CC. 

May 20. — No hiccup; has had 
toothache. Strawberry tongue. 

Iy Tc. Fragaria vesca 0, 3ij, five 
drops in water night and morning. 

August 5. — A little hiccup; an- 
orexia; tongue normal in aspect; 
still very swarthy. 

^ Luet. CC. 

October 2 1 . — His skin is getting 
quite a clear English colour; still 
has hiccup a little ; he is straighter, 
fatter, and slightly ruddy. 

Iy Cyclamen Europ. 1, five drops 
in water night and morning. 

December 16. — Has had an acci- 
dent. 



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^ Trit. 3. Aurum metallicum, 
four grains every morning. 

January 27, 1888. — During the 
time he was taking the Aurum he 
was poorly; since then he is better, 
and he is now clean and white- 
skinned. 

Very bad teeth. 

^ Bacill. C. 

June 29. — He has been so much 
better that he has neglected to 
report himself. The number of 
feelably indurated glands in the 
sides of his neck is smaller, but 
still there are a goodish many of 
them. 

fy Luet. CC. 

September 5. — Greatly improved; 
skin still too dusky; many dark 
mother's marks. 



98 Delicate^ Backward, Puny, and 

ly Tc. Condurango i x , 3iv, five 
drops in a little water at bedtime. 

March 8, 1889. — Comes and 
exclaims, " I am getting on finely." 
He has practically become like any 
one else in colour; though, of 
course, his bones are still, as they 
must ever remain, crooked; but 
though so remaining, they are fixed 
and strong, and the lad is above 
the average intellectually. 

I saw him infrequently in 1889, 
and a few times in 1890 — once for 
a cough, and once for a bilious 
attack. 

He is now growm up, and 
articled to a professional man 
in the city, and a bright future 
seems in store for him; and, more- 
over, if he in due course should 



Stunted Children. 99 

marry and have offspring, there is 
no reason why such offspring should 
be other than healthy and normal 
in structure. 

Such a result from medicinal 
treatment must be considered 
eminently satisfactory, for although 
the individual's back continues 
crooked, his quality is now almost, 
if not quite, normal ; and it is this 
quality which would be propagated, 
and not the crookedly fixed bones 
of his back, which would not be 
transmissible. 



ioo Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

MEDICINAL TREATMENT versus 
SPECTACLES IN THE EYE DEFECTS 
OF CHILDREN. 

When young children do not see 
normally, eye surgeons know 
naught but eye surgery and 
spectacles. Spectacles are, under 
circumstances, good, and often in- 
dispensable, but in children I 
think the spectacle business is 
much overdone and enormously 
overrated. No dentist can make 
the teeth grow; no oculist can 
make the eyes grow, neither of 
them professes or tries to do 
anything of the kind. And yet 
there is here an immense field 
for useful cultivation lying fallow. 
For years past I have regularly 
treated both teeth and eyes as 



Stunted Children. iOJ 

objects of medicinal cure and 
cultivation. Cases of the cure and 
cultivation of teeth I have related 
elsewhere, and several such cases 
are narrated in these pages. 

If we want to get good muscles, 
we exercise them. No one denies 
that; and yet when we put 
spectacles on young children we 
are in very deed denying it to a 
very large extent. 

I have over and over again 
cured strabismus or squint with 
medicines, sometimes with Gel- 
semium 6 alone. Myopia should 
not be treated with spectacles at all 
until all the possibilities of medi- 
cines, eye-exercises, and growth 
have been exhausted. Then, but 
not till then, should spectacles or 
folders be had recourse to. I am 



102 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

in the habit of putting aside all 
spectacles worn by little children, 
and putting them instead upon a 
course of medicinal treatment, and 
the result most commonly is that 
such spectacles can in the end be 
dispensed with more or less. We 
must remember that spectacles 
have no beneficial influence upon 
the nutrition or health of the eye. 
Indeed, quite the contrary; they are 
a mighty boon in certain irremedi- 
able defects, but they mend nothing. 
Therapeutically they may be com- 
pared to crutches or a wooden leg. 
The eyes must be thought of and 
regarded as living organs of the 
body susceptible of organic im- 
provement and growth; they are 
not merely optic instruments. 



Stunted Children. 103 

Some years since the younger 
son of the headmaster of one of our 
well-known public schools was sent 
to me; he was under an eminent 
oculist for his eyes, and wore 
spectacles for his astigmatism and 
headaches. The spectacles were, 
from the quasi-scientific standpoint, 
well adapted for the purpose, and 
they were praised by the boy as 
being a great comfort to him, and 
his mother was distinctly of opinion 
that he was less subject to head- 
aches and could see much better 
with his spectacles than without 
them. 

That the treatment was scientific 
in its adaptation I do not deny; 
that it was really the right 
treatment I absolutely deii}'; it 



104 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

was only quasi-scientific because 
it did not take due cognisance of 
all the facts of the case. Let me 
state my thesis: — The boy was 
only half grown ; he was about nine 
years of age; the true object to be 
aimed at was not a palliative 
temporary one, but one of organic 
mending, to the end that his eyes 
might become of themselves efficient 
organs of sight to last during the 
natural life of the individual. Do 
spectacles effect such organic 
mending? No, they do not, but 
rather tend to prevent it. 

If you want to make a weak arm 
strong, do you order it to be carried 
in a sling? The boy's general 
nutrition was poor, his glands were 
indurated and enlarged, his limbs 



Stunted Children. 105 

thin, his abdomen distended, and 
the state of his eyes was of a piece 
with that of the rest of his organism. 
I ordered his spectacles to be 
removed, and treated his entire 
being with remedies, and in time 
he improved in health, he grew 
stronger in all his organs and parts, 
and his eyes grew and improved in 
like manner, so that now he has 
no need of spectacles whatever, and 
I see no reason to snppose that he 
ever will need any. 

It is not enough that the means 
be scientifically adapted to the 
case ; we must be sure that the 
object aimed at is the right one. 
Artificial teeth are useful for those 
who have lost their natural ones, 
but artificial teeth do not help back- 



106 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

ward teeth to grow and get strong ; 
a wig may usefully take the place 
of lost hair, but a wig does not 
help weak hair to grow. 

In like manner, weak, imperfect 
eyes are not mended with spectacles. 
The eyes are living organs of the 
body, and as such can be vitally 
improved by proper internal treat- 
ment. Only failing this is the aid 
of scientifically adapted spectacles 
to be invoked. 

Is it not a sad thought that the 
great army of eye-doctors are to a 
man nothing but mechanicians ; 
and what is still sadder, they do not 
even aim at being anything else. 



Stunted Children. 107 



ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT OF EYES 
AND TEETH. 

A frail, undersized, almost tooth- 
less girl of 16 was brought to me 
on November 11, 1887, principally 
for Iter eyes. She had been at the 
ophthalmic hospitals, and also 
under the best ophthalmic surgeons, 
for " inflammation of the nerve of 
the sight," and was informed that 
she would probably go blind. 
However, she had mended under 
their own care till the present time 
so far that spectacles were of some 
slight service. She suffers much 
from headaches, which are worse 
in bed at night. Her teeth are 
indented in dots, notched, and 



108 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

imbedded more or less in tartar. 
Much toothache. 

ty Luet. CC. 

December 9. — Headache better; 
toothache gone. 

Iy Tc. Geranium Rob ertianum if , 
^iv, five drops in a table spoonful of 
water night and morning. 

January 4, 1888. — Headache 
much worse, also toothache. 

^ Luet. CC. 

Febrtiary 1. — About the same; 
tuberculous teeth. 

Iv BacilL 30. 

March 9. — Much pain in the 
right side of the face; worse on 
getting warm in bed. 

3^ Trit. 3 Aurum met., four 
grains dry on the tongue at bed- 
time. 



Stunted Children. 109 

May 9. — Very drowsy; pains 
now worse after food. 

ty Thuja occid. 30. 
June 17, 1 89 1. — Been going the 
round of the oculists again. Typi- 
cally tuberculous teeth; much 
frontal headache. 

fy Bacill. CC. 

July 15. — Headache worse; 
eyes ache very much ; teeth begin- 
ning to clean a little. 

^ Rep. (1000). 

And thus the treatment went on 
till the summer of 1893, when 
patient's teeth and general physique 
w r ere notably improved, inclusive of 
her eyes; but just as the teeth are 
still imperfect though very much 
improved, so are her eyes ; and I 
have now ordered the mechanical 

H 



no Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

dentist for her teeth and the 
mechanical oculist for her eyes, as 
further organic improvement is not 
to be expected. 

Spectacles come in for the 
organically irremediable; but to 
start children in life with spectacles 
without first trying to mend their 
ocular defects vitally is hardly 
worthy of really scientific physi- 
cians. 

A truism? 

Quite so, but bespectacled chil- 
dren are all over the place never- 
theless, and pratically no one ever 
tries to cure eyes. 



Stunted Children. in 



CASE OF ASTHENOPIA IN A BOY OF 
NINE CURED BY MEDICINES. 

A little boy, nine years of age, 
born at Lucknow, came under my 
observation in the fall of 1891 for 
asthenopia. He was brought so 
that I might give my approval 
of spectacles ordered, or to be 
ordered, by an eminent eye sur- 
geon. As I thought remedies 
would cure the asthenopia, I 
forbade the spectacles. The first 
remedy given was Urtica urens #, 
for his spleen, which was enlarged, 
and clearly of malarial origin. 
This bettered the spleen, and the 
lad was in many respects much 
better. 

After being two months under 



112 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

the Urtzca, the symptoms that 
remained were — 

i. His eyes felt cold. 

2. Then they felt hot. 

3. And then they watered a good 
deal. 

These symptoms seemed to me 
to be of a malarial nature and 
sequence corresponding to the 
cold and hot stage and the stage 
of sweating, and hence I ordered 
Natrum muriaticum, 6 trit. This 
was followed by so much ameliora- 
tion that I did not see him till the 
following spring, when the same 
remedy was repeated. 

In the fall of 1892 I again saw 
the lad, and thought I would look 
away from the asthenopia and 
photophobia altogether, and treat 



Stunted Children. 113 

the patient. His tongue was very 
pippy, and his cervical glands were 
enlarged and indurated. After a 
few months of Bacillin. CC, patient 
was quite well of himself and of 
his eyes. Once in June 1893 I gave 
him a short course of infrequent 
doses of Sulphur 30, because his 
eyes troubled him a little in the 
evening, since when he has con- 
tinued quite well in all respects. 

In this case two pathological 
elements are distinctly traceable. 
1 st, The basic hereditary tubercular 
tendency, evidenced by the state of 
his cervical glands; and, 2ndly, the 
acquired malarial impress on the 
organism. Urtica urens and Nat. 
mur. met the latter homceopathi- 



H4 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

cally, but still a really permanent 
cure was not attained. Then the 
basic constitutional taint was cured 
by the Bacillin., and the last faint 
flicker of the asthenopia was got 
rid of by Sulphur in dynamic dose ; 
and Sulphur is, as shown by Dr. 
Robert T. Cooper, a very notable 
remedy for ague, and we all know 
it as a classic antipsoric of almost 
ancient renown. 



Stunted Children. 115 



DEFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF EYES 
AND BRAIN. 

A little girl, 5^ years of age, was 
placed under my professional care 
on December 11, 1884, for defec- 
tive development of eyes and brain, 
apparently from constitutional deli- 
cacy, and then originating from the 
effects of a fall. It is not easy to 
gauge the effects of a fall ; usually 
the point is really this: What is the 
quality of the person who falls ? In 
this case the patient is the coal- 
black variety of the strumous ; her 
forehead was low and projecting; 
she was blind from double cataract, 
due probably to shock in the first 
instance, and then the lenses gradu- 
ally silted up. The child was dull, 



n6 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

nervous, readily frightened by the 
least noise, and she had been vac- 
cinated in the usual way success- 
fully. I proceeded first against 
the vaccinosis with Thuja 30, and 
this seemingly caused a bout of 
vomiting, whereupon improvement 
in the vision set in. 

January 5, 1885. — Grinds her 
teeth at night. 

fy Luet. CC. 

February 1. — Pupils less dilated; 
decided general amelioration, and 
notably in the state of her nerves ; 
she is less irritable, and much more 
amenable to reason. Thuja C. 
then followed, but apparently did 
no good, when Luet. CC. was 
repeated. 

March 24. — Sight and temper 



Stunted Children. 117 

better; sleeps well; she has, and 
has had for long, ill-smelling foot- 
sweats ; she can now see large 
capital letters, as well as at a 
greater distance ; and, for the first 
time in her life, her bowels act well 
of themselves. 

The treatment was continued 
very irregularly till June 1888, 
since when I have no further in- 
formation, and the condition then 
reported to me (I did not see her) 
was thus described by her father, — 
u She sees better, and walks about 
with increased confidence." 

The principal point of interest to 
me in this case was the very decided 
good effects of Platanus occidental is 
0, which was given for a number of 
months with very evident benefit to 



n8 Delicate, Backzvard, Puny, and 

the nutrition of the child's lenses, 
and consequent improvement in 
her vision. The dose was five 
drops night and morning. 

The treatment of this case was 
carried on in a very irregular 
manner, owing to a variety of 
circumstances, and as patient lived 
at a great distance I was not able 
to see her. 



Stunted Children. 119 

EMANSIONAL TROUBLES IN YOUNG 
GIRLS. 

These are many, and so readily 
remedied by onr medicines, that 
I will only shortly narrate one 
case. 

Miss E., in her seventeenth year, 
of fnll habit, was brought by her 
mother to me from Ireland on 
December 16, 1884, because of her 
inability to pass the Rubicon of 
young womanhood. Her skin was 
blotchy and pimply; leucorrhoea 
pretty bad; weight on the top of 
the head, frontal headache, and 
swelled feet and legs. Pulsatilla 
was given but failed. 

Then, in January 1885, I gave 
Bellis perennis 1, ten drops in water 



120 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

night and morning, because of her 
tired feeling and acne. 

February 14. — Has duly men- 
struated, and is not so tired, but 
her feet are much swelled. 

^ Trit. 3 X Helonin. 

March 21. — Menstruated four 
weeks ago ; feet well ; head well. 

3^ Bellis per. 1 , as before. 

April 18. — Well, except that 
there is the least bit of swelling 
of the right foot,and still suffers 
from acne. She had been vaccin- 
ated, and hence I gave Thuja 
30. 

FIVE YEARS LATER. 

September 1, 1890. — She has con- 
tinued quite well, but she is now 
anaemic; her feet swell again, the 



Stunted Children, 121 

menses are very scanty, and she 
gets fainty attacks. 

^ Trit. 3 X Trillin. 

October 6. — " A capital change," 
and she continues, I believe, well. 

There is no very special interest 
in this case, and I merely relate it 
to show that the delayed passage 
into womanhood is readily remedied 
by gentle innocuous medicines, and 
in a manner worthy of our advanced 
civilisation and refined culture. 



122 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

INCONTINENCE OF URINE CON- 
SIDERED AS RETARDED DEVELOP- 
MENT. 

For some time now I have 
regarded wetting the bed in chil- 
dren who have attained a certain 
age as retarded or arrested de- 
velopment about the sphincter 
region of the bladder. 

A lad of 17 years of age was 
brought to me on March 28, 1890, 
for life-long nocturnal incontinence 
of urine. 

3^ Thuja 30. 

May 26. — Very much better; has 
wet his bed only three times since 
commencing the Thuja powders. 

^ Rep. 

June 20. — No better; and has 
hay-fever and some emphysema. 



Stunted Children. 123 

^ Lobelia acet. 0, five drops in 
water night and morning. 

July 30.— Better much all round, 
though the incontinence is not 
much better. 

^ Brachyglottis repens, 3% five 
drops in water night and morning. 

October 30. — Did him so much 
good that his parents thought him 
cured; latterly he wet his bed again. 

^ Tc. Jaborandi 3 X . 

February 11. 189 1. — He is much 
better than formerly, but he still 
wets his bed. 

^ Med. CC. 

May 20. — Did not wet his bed 
at all while taking his medicine, but 
does it again now. 

^ Rep. 

July 24 — Quite cured; he wet 



124 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

his bed for the last time on May 
26. 

The cure has proved permanent. 

The question of bed-wetting in 
children is very much more impor- 
tant than the inexperienced might 
imagine ; the unfortunate sufferers 
feel very much humiliated, and their 
moral tone is distinctly lowered by 
the habit. A few cases are very 
easily cured with almost any well- 
chosen remedy, but where the 
case withstands domestic allopathy, 
domestic homoeopathy, local allo- 
pathy, and local homoeopathy and 
consultants of all sorts (as in this 
case), it is best to take a wide 
aetiological survey of the case, and 
treat it as arrested or retarded 
development. 



Stunted Children, 125 

AN EPILEPTIC, HOPELESSLY-DIS- 
EASED BABY OF TWENTY 
MONTHS OF AGE. 

There are cases which at times 
are brought to one that are so bad 
that almost blank despair takes 
possession of one's mind at the 
merest contemplation of them. 
Such a case was presented to me 
in the month of February 1885. 
The wee girlie had been declared 
by two competent physicians of 
Leeds to be "an incurable epileptic, 
and hopelessly diseased." 

She had always been much con- 
stipated, but fairly well till her 
double teeth began to come; with 
them came convulsions, " and one 
doctor said they were epileptic 
when he saw them." When she 



126 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

was about eleven months old the 
fits first appeared, seven fits in one 
day, and then on some subsequent 
occasions, when as soon as the 
symptoms of a fit set in the gums 
were lanced, and that generally 
stopped them. The breath smells 
sour, the tongue coats, and the 
stomach gets out of order when 
these attacks come. Now the teeth 
are beginning to decay. She is a 
cheerful, sturdy-looking child, 
large for her age; sleepless, and 
immediately after food a bright red 
flush appears in one cheek. 

After two months of treatment 
( Var. 30 the first month, and Luet. 
CC. the second), comes this note 
in my case record: — 

April 1. — Has cut a tooth with 



Stunted Children. 127 

a fit, but no foaming at the mouth 
as on all previous occasions. 

R Var. C. 

May 19. — Has been a fortnight 
without medicine; two attempts at 
fits, but they passed off. 

^ Rep. 

June 16. — No fit; has cut a 
double tooth ; sleeps badly. 

fy LueL CC. 

yz//j/ 16. — No fit; has cut another 
double tooth, — only one more to 
come. And now for the kernel of 
the homoeopathic nut — the child's 
father wrote: — . . . July 15, 
1885. — "A rash appeared in the 
bend of the right arm about three 
weeks ago that looked almost like 
ringworm, but it certainly is not 
that; the rash has appeared also 



128 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

under the chin, and lately on one 
leg; sometimes it is much inflamed 
and irritated, at other times there 
are only a number of very small 
dark spots, which seem to be drying 
up." 

^ Luet. CC. 

The appearance of an eruption 
in the course of truly constitutional 
treatment is, in my judgment, a 
sure sign of a thoroughly radical 
constitutional cure ; and so it proved 
here: the eruption gradually died 
away, and that child never looked 
back. 

Two years later I felt curious to 
know whether the cure held good, 
for we cannot ever reckon upon a 
case of epilepsy being cured, unless 
after years of waiting, and the 



Stunted Children. 129 

reply came — u These powders quite 
cured her, aud she is still quite 
well, although the two doctors 
gave her up to die as ' hopelessly 
diseased.'" 

The explanation of the cure is 
merely that the case was one of 
pent-up syphilitic taint (possibly in 
the second generation), which the 
child's nature was battling with, 
and when this was cast out on to 
the external surface of the body in 
the form of a rash, the bar to the 
child's growth was removed. And 
this case, therefore, beautifully il- 
lustrates and amply justifies my 
contention. 



130 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 



A PARTIALLY DEAF AND DUMB 
CHILD. 

On October 25, 1882, a lady 
brought her 7^ year-old daughter 
to me because she could neither 
hear nor talk properly ; she hears a 
little, and j abbers something, but it 
is not articulate. The child is almost 
mindless, incapable of thinking ; 
she does not know her own name. 
On my asking her where the fire is, 
she . . . puts out her tongue ! 
Presumably she had an idea that I 
was a doctor, and that such a person 
looks at tongues. Then she repeated 
the word "fire." She is described as 
dreadfully passionate and irritable. 
Had abscesses as a baby, and has 
ringworm for years ; has it on her 



Stunted Children. 131 

head now. The mother's idea of 
the origin of the child's life-long 
delicacy is that it started when the 
mother was carrying her in utero, 
when she on a certain occasion was 
severely chilled in cold water. 
Patient's right pnpilis smaller than 
the left; right side of her chest is 
sunken; she has thread-worms; 
lids of left eye apt to be contracted, 
especially in the morning. 

I ordered the child to be oiled 
night and morning in the manner 
I have already fully described and 
prescribed Bellis perennzs 1, five 
drops in water night and morning. 

November 23. — The mother fan- 
cies patient is a wee bit sharper. 

^ Psorin. 30. 

December 29. — Is thought by her 



132 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

friends to be a little quicker, and, 
cried the mother, the ringworm on 
her head is gone! And she had 
had it for two years. 

ty Thuja 30. 

January 30, 1883. — She is be- 
ginning to speak better, but her 
temper is described as violent. 

^ Psor. C. 

February 26. — Speaks a little 
better; she makes greater effort to 
articulate; there is no sign of ring- 
worm. 

3^ Thuja C. 

April 7. — She is bright; there 
is improvement all round; she is 
better tempered and less irritable. 

^ Luet. CC. 

May 2. — Is better altogether. 

Iy Trit. 3 Cuprum sul. 



Stunted Children. 133 



June 15. — Still improving; less 
cross; less excitable; talks more; 
hears better. 

ty Rep. 

July 13. — Great improvement; 
articulates a little; thinks better. 

^ Be His per. 1. 

October 8. — Talks, and her in- 
tellect is developing. 

Iy Silica 6. 

I have not since heard of the 
case, but up to this point the child 
had very greatly improved in every 
way. 



134 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

BACKWARD GROWTH; MESENTERIC 
DISEASE AND EVIL HABITS. 

I am very strongly of opinion 
that evil habits in the young are of 
physical origin and nature, and that 
they can be cured by medicines, if 
physicians will take the trouble. 
The subject of this narration was 
brought to me on November 8, 1883, 
because he was small for his age 
{lt% years) ; had a drum-belly, very 
tender; indurated mesenteric and 
other glands; "and I am sorry to 
say he has a very wicked habit, and 
constantly plays with his private 
parts;" "he also has constant 
diarrhoea." 

Is he a naughty boy in any other 
respects ? 



Stunted Children. 135 

Oh, no, lie is a dear, good boy; 
but for that one dirty, wicked habit 
his father vows he will kill him if 
he does not leave it off. 

Does his father consider that the 
diarrhoea is also sinful? 

Of course not, what do you 
mean ? 

What I mean is simply this — 
Your sou is diseased, and his 
diarrhoea, his drum-belly, his dirty 
habit of masturbation are all of a 
piece, and all from his diseased 
glands ; cure his disease, get him 
well and healthy, and he will leave 
off his dirty habit of masturbation, 
just as he will cease to have the 
diarrhoea. 

So it happened ; in a very few 
months the boy was cured, and got 



136 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

healthy in body, healthy in mind, 
and healthy in habits ! When he 
was vaccinated he had a very bad 
arm. 

On December 8 his body-weight 
being 4 st. 5 lbs., he was ordered 
to be rnbbed with oil night and 
morning, and to have 6 grains of 
Ars. tod., 4 trit, fonr times a day. 

December 13. — Weight, 4 st. * 8 
lbs., so he has put on 3 lbs. in 
weight, and his diarrhoea is rather 
better. His feet are ill-smelling 
and sweaty. 

^ Silicea C. 

January 13, 1883. — Weight, 4 st. 
8j4 lbs. Bowels better; belly less 
tender, but there is still tenderness 
at the sides. The boy is very 



Stunted Children. 137 

much improved all round ; feet 
sweat as much as ever. 

1^ Thuja 30. 

February 16. — Weighty st. 9^ 
lbs. Feet dry, bowels regular, but 
he has pain in his abdomen pretty 
badly when he gets warm in bed 
at night. 

ty Luet. CC. 

This practically completed the 
cure, for after it was finished in 
March Psor. 30 was ordered for a 
month, and then no further treat- 
ment was needed, and the lad was 
physically and morally healthy and 
clean ; his evil practice was entirely 
given up, and apparently forgotten. 



138 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 



BLIGHTED BY AGUE. 

A stunted, forward-bent, asth- 
matic girl, 17 years of age, was 
brought over from the United States 
of America and placed under my 
professional care in the month of 
April 1886. The unfortunate child 
had had ague on and off ever since 
she was eleven months old, and in 
addition to that she had had pneu- 
monia three times, as well as 
measles, whooping-cough, chicken- 
pox, and German measles. Her 
mother is under me for asthma, and 
twx> of her cousins for acne and 
comedones, and her mother's mother 
died of phthisis. Patient's skin was 
very dry, she perspired but very 
little, made waiter very frequently, 



Stunted Children, 139* 

had moderately bad leucorrhcea, and 
suffered much from dysmenorrhoea. 
Had also a good deal of anginal 
pain down the sternum ; spleen very 
large; apex of right lung dull on 
percussion. 

She remained under my care 
nearly three years, and then re- 
turned home practically well. 

The remedies that cured the 
spleen were Oleum succini non 
rectificatum #, which she took in 
five-drop doses twice a day for 
three months, and Med. CC, Bacill. 
30, and Bellis perennis, and also 
Ceanothus Am. i x , and Nux 
vomica. 

Two or three months of Luct. 
CC. wrought a great change in her 
constitution, and after three or four 



140 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

months under the influence of 
Psoricum 30, her asthma was so far 
well that she could lie down in bed 
and sleep all night like other 
people. 

The special point in her case is 
the very remarkable improvement 
in her bodily development and 
carriage, quite apart from the cure 
of her asthma and of the chronic 
enlargement of her spleen. Her 
father, a well-known public man in 
America, was greatly pleased with 
the remarkable change in his 
daughter. 



Stunted Children. 141 



MORAL OBLIQUITY IN CHILDREN. 

We are all too much disposed to 
regard moral deviations in children 
(and in adults, too, for the matter 
of that) as something separate and 
apart from any physical basis. 

What can minister to a mind 
diseased? 

Remedies homceopathically 
adapted to each inividual case can. 

How do I know? 

Because I have done it myself 
any time and oft during the last 
twenty years. 

And it is not even difficult, given 
a knowledge of homoeopathy and 
of pharmacodynamics, with a little 
knowledge of diagnostics and phy- 
siology. Of course, the more one 



142 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

knows the more one can do, as in 
all other branches of applied know- 
ledge. 

Most people one meets with in 
daily life can play at whist more or 
less — mostly less. There is whist 
and whist ; likewise there is homoe- 
opathy and homoeopathy. 

The mental and moral balance in 
children when disturbed is so dis- 
turbed materially and physicially, 
and if we keep this well before our 
minds, we can restore such dis- 
turbed balance just as readily as we 
can cure any other disease. 

A child that habitually wets its 
bed is not dirty, but disturbed in 
the health of the parts involved. 
A child that masturbates, or is 



Stunted Children. 143 

guilty of any other moral obliquity, 
is disturbed in the health of the 
part or parts involved in the several 
functions. I was sent for some 
fourteen years ago into Surrey to 
see a girl of 9 years of age, who 
was guilty of self-sexual gratifica- 
tion to a dreadful degree, occupying 
herself hours at a time thereat till 
she was quite exhausted. Her 
parents were in a sad state of 
mind, and communicated the fact 
to me with much embarrassment, 
and then volubly anathematizing 
the poor child as vile, and given 
over to sinful depravity. Due 
investigation into the case showed 
that she had enlarged indurated 
glands in her groins and pelvis 
generally — the ovaries, no doubt, 



144 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

being in a like morbid state. The 
child also suffered from spells of 
diarrhoea, and I explained to the 
distressed parents that the sup- 
posedly wicked habit of the patient 
was as a matter of fact not wicked- 
ness at all any more than her 
diarrhoea, both being due to the 
state of the various glands respec- 
tively involved. This took a great 
load off the parents' minds, and I 
set about proving the correctness 
of my diagnosis by curing both the 
naughty habit and the diarrhoea, 
and the morbid state of the glands, 
and in less than two years the girl's 
glands were normal, her diarrhoea 
had quite disappeared, and the 
habit in question had also been 
quite given up, and apparently for- 



Stunted Children. 145 

gotten ! That little girl is now a 
grown woman, and as sweet and 
pnre as any parents could wish, 
and has seemingly not even any 
recollection of the past at all. 

The chief remedies used in this 
case were Thuja, Sabina, BacilL, 
and Platina, all in the higher dilu- 
tions, and infrequently repeated. 

Several years since a greatly 
distressed mother brought her four- 
year-old boy to me, telling me, 
after much hesitation, that he was 
hopelessly given over to self-pollu- 
tion, from which he would not 
desist, notwithstanding the most 
severe chastisements administered 
by both father and mother, the 
father often declaring in extreme 



146 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

anger that lie would kill him if lie 
did not leave off; but leave off lie 
would not, and whenever he could 
hide or creep under the table un- 
observed, he would give himself 
over to furious masturbation. 

I explained to the mother my 
views of the true nature of the 
case, which greatly relieved her 
mind, for she had become fully 
persuaded that she was the mother 
of a moral monster. 

Due examination showed that 
his abdomen was greatly distended, 
and his inguinal glands were en- 
larged and indurated, 

After a few months' treatment, 
the mother ceased to bring him, 
and when she subsequently came 
on another matter concerning her 



Stunted Children. 147 

own health, and I enquired about 
little Jack, she exclaimed, u Oh, he 
has quite given that up, and seems 
to have forgotten all about it." 

A few months later she brought 
little Jack again : ' ' He has begun 
with his old habit again, but noth- 
ing like so badly as before." 

I put him under a further course 
of treatment, and then lost sight 
of him. 

Quite lately his father came to 
me on his own account for a cough, 
when I enquired about Jack: u Oh, 
he's quite well, and I don't think 
he remembers anything about it/, 
I can't understand a child at that 
age, etc." 

I had very great difficulty in con- 
vincing this gentleman that poor 



148 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

little Jack's " dirty trick" was 
physical disease merely and only, 
and in no sense moral obliqnity ; 
indeed, I did not quite succeed, for 
he shook his head and said, " I 
hope it is so, for I would have 
killed him if he had not left off." 

This, subject is of vast import- 
ance to mankind, and I trust most 
sincerely that the time is dawning 
for us to thoroughly grip the true 
nature of things, and not imagine 
that we can whip away this habit 
when due — as it mostly is at the 
start to physical disease. For it 
were quite as rational to whip or 
otherwise chastise our children 
because they get diarrhoea or the 
measles. 

A little girl of 3^ years of age 



Stunted Children. 149 

was brought to me some time since 
for this same thing, — the wee mite 
would " work with crossed legs" in 
a manner I will stop short of 
describing. Notwithstanding her 
tender age, the habit had become 
inveterate, and she would continue 
at it almost by the hour. Eminent 
medical men had declared the case 
to be one of disease of the spinal 
marrow that was incurable, and 
would end in paralysis. The aspect 
of the child was peculiar, inasmuch 
as there was, for her age, notable 
enlargement of the breasts. There 
were no indurated glands anywhere 
to be found, and the child was fat 
and well formed, excepting that the 
mammary enlargement gave her 
the aspect almost of a wee pigmy 



150 Delicate, Backward, Puny, and 

woman. Not finding anything 
whatever in her physical state to 
account for the said naughty habit, 
I enquired closely into her historj^ 
and found that she had been vac- 
cinated on the leg in lieu of the arm, 
and that not long after the vac- 
cination — done when the child was 
about a year old — she began to 
work about with her legs, and 
gradually formed the habit in 
question. 

Those who care to learn my 
views in regard to the effects of 
vaccination will find them ex- 
pressed in my small work entitled 
"Vaccinosis and its Cure by Thuja" 

I used in this case not only 
Thuja, but almost all our great 
antisycotics before a cure was per- 
manently effected ; in the end I did, 



Stunted Children. 151 

however, succeed.* Vaccinosis is in 
the very deed a very real disease. 

I have here, in regard to 
moral obliquities, purposely chosen 
very youthful cases, in order the 
more certainly to convey my opinion 
of the true nature of the greater 
part of cases of self-pollution in 
either sex, and at the various ages. 
These cases are very common in 
the fully developed as well as in 
the quite young; and my matured 
opinion is that they are physical 
DISEASE, and not sin in the sense of 
morality and religion. That this 
physical disease slowly infects the 
moral nature is unfortunately but 

* Since this was written there has been a 
slight relapse, for which patient is again under 
treatment. 



152 Delicate and Puny Children. 

too true, but even here the physical 
cure must precede the moral cure, 
i. e. trom the standpoint of the 
merely earthly physician. 

It is not possible for any merely 
human beings to cure physical dis- 
ease by faith or other spiritual 
means; in the natural world we 
know only naturall&ws, and natural 
law in the spiritual world is, to my 
mind, rank nonsence. 

I never could understand why 
almost everything connected with 
generation seems to suggest sin to 
almost all of us. Surely we are 
not entirely right here; however, 
I am not dealing with dogma, but 
with problems in practical medicine, 
and I regard the task I had set 
myself as finished. 



INDEX. 



Acid nit., 37. 

Acne, 52. 

Ague, case of girl blighted by, 138. 

Air, fresh, cannot cure disease, 66, 72. 

Allopathy in an advanced stage of senile 

decay, 78. 
Ammonium carbonicum, 61. 
Argentum nitricum, 61. 
Arnica, 27. 

Arsenic, iodide of, 61, 136. 
Arsenicum, 27. 

Asthenopia, case of, in boy, in. 
Asthma, 35. 

Aurummetallicum,33, 34, 46, 49, 97, 108. 
Aurum muriaticum natronatum, 42. 

Baby, epileptic diseased, case of, 125. 



154 Index. 

Bacillinum, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 42, 46, 49, 
55, 64, 70, 76, 77, 84, 97, 108, 109, 
113, 114, 139, 145. 

Backward children, treatment of, 1. 

Backward growth, 134. 

Badiaga ameliorates freckles, 59. 

Baptisia, 32. 

Bed-wetting, 71, 73, 122, 124, 142. 

Bellisperennis, 54, 119, 120, 131, 133,139. 

Berberis vulgaris, 61. 

Blight, constitutional, due to vaccination, 

35- 
Boils, breaking out of, 24. 
Boy, hunchback, of 1 1 years of age, case 

of, 93- 
Boy of 4 years of age, case of, 145. 
Boy of 8^ years of age, case of, 73. 
Boy of 9 years of age, asthenopia in, in. 
Boy of n years of age, case of, 69. 
Boy of ~ii% years of age, case of, 134. 
Boy under eminent oculist, case of, 103. 
Boys and girls, relative powers of, 89. 
Brachy glottis repens, 123. 



Index. 155 

Brain and eyes, defective development of, 

115. 
Brain, irritable, treatment of, 4. 
Brain-power is gained by brain exercise, 

86. 
Breastedness, One, case of, 17. 
Bryonia alba, 54. 
Burnett, Dr., letters to, 50, 51. 
Burnett, Dr. , ' ' Vaccinosis and its cure by 

Thuja," 19. 

Calcarea carbonica, 27, 61. 

Calcarea hypophosphoricum, 32. 

Calcarea phosphoricum, 32, 77, 85. 

Calcarea sulphuricum, 28, 29. 

Cape Mounted Police, 11. 

Ceanothus Americanus, 19, 22, 60, 139. 

Cephalic invalids should not lie mentally 

fallow, 82. 
Chelidonium, 32. 
Child partially deaf and dumb, case of, 

[30. 
Childhood, constitutional delicacies of, 6. 



156 Index. 

Children, backwardness of, treatment of, 

1. 
Children, delicate, treatment of, 2. 
Children, family of five, effects of rubbing 

in oil on, 12. 
Children of puny growth, inrubbings of 

oil in, 8. 
Chiidren, mental backwardnesses of, 3. 
Children, moral obliquity in, 141. 
Children's disease taints not curable by 

air or diet, 66. 
Cod-liver oil, rubbing in of, 8. 
Colocynthis, 61. 
Condurango, 55, 98. 
Cooper, Dr. Robert T. , his remedy for 

ague, ii 4. 
Cow-pox is a vesiculo-pustular disease, 

25- 

Cuprum sulphuricum, 132. 
Cyclamen Europoeum, 96. 

Deaf and dumb child, partially, case of, 
130. 



Index. 157 

Deafness, 41. 

Delicate children, treatment of, 1. 

Development, unilateral arrest of, 17. 

Dioscorea, 61. 

Dioscorin, 61. 

Disease taints in children not curable by 
air or diet, 66. 

Dropsy, 57. 

Dunn, late Dr., formerly of Doncaster, 
62. 

E., Miss, 17 years of age, case of, 119. 

Eczema, 35. 

Edwin, case of, 41. 

Emansional troubles in young girls, 119. 

Enuresis, diurnal and nocturnal, 69. 

Epileptic diseased baby, 125. 

Euonymin, 21. 

Evil habit, case of boy addicted to, 134. 

Eye defects of children, 100. 

Eye-doctors are nothing but mechani- 
cians, 106. 

Eyes and brain, defective development of, 

"5- 

Eyes and teeth, arrested development of, 
107. 



158 Index. - 

Fall, effects of a, 115. 

Fallow condition not sufficient for cure, 

82, 85. 
Ferrum picricum, 56. 
Fragaria vesca, 34, 42, 45, 46, 54, 96. 
Freckled, dusky, dropsical lad, case of, 57, 
Freckles ameliorated by badiaga, 59. 
Fright, nocturnal, 41. 

Gelsemium cures squint, 10 1. 
Geranium Robertianum, 108. 
Girl, frail, almost toothless, case of, 107, 
Girl of 2)H years of age, case of, 149. 
Girl of 5^ years of age, case of, 115. 
Girl of 7 years of age, case of, 67. 
Girl of 9 years of age, case of. 143. 
Girl of 11 years of age, case of, 75. 
Girl of 17 years of age, case of, 138. 
Girl, stunted, case of, 55. 
Girls and boys, relative powers of, 89. 
Girls, young, emansional troubles in 119. 
Gladstone a great brain-worker, but not 

particularly muscular, 88. 
Glumness: a taciturn boy, 44. 
Grace, Dr., the great cricketer, not a 

great physician, 88. 



Index. 159 

Growth, arrested, 57. 
Growth, backward, 134. 
Growth, post-natural, 15. 
Growth, puny, 31, 41, 52, 64, 67. 
Growth, stunted, 48. 

Headmaster's son, case of, for eyes 103. 

Head, misshapen, 80. 

Heclae lava, 27. 

Helonin, 120. 

Hepar sulphuris calcareum, 22, 62, 63. 

Hunchback boy, 93. 

Hydrastis Canadensis, 56. 

Hydrocephalism, 31. 

Insomnia, chronic, 64. 
Iodide of arsenic, 61. 

Jaborandi Tc. , 123. 

L,ad of 17 years of age, incontinence of 

urine in, 122. 
Lady students of the higher grades, 91. 
I/uly, young, case of spinal curvature, 52. 
I y ady, young, of Kent, case of, 17. 
L,athyrus sativus, 29. 
Levico, 32, 34. 



160 Index. 

9 . — „_ __ 

Liquor calcis, 27. 

Little lassie of 8 years old, case of, 64. 

Lobelia acetum, 123. 

Locomotor ataxy, 26. 

Lopsidedness, case of arrest of develop- 
ment, 17, 20, 21. 

Lueticum, 22, 42, 55, 61, 77, 83, 94, 95, 
96, 97, 108, 116, 126, 127, 128, 132, 
i37> 139. 

Malandrin, 74. 

Man 27 years of age, case of, 80. 

Masturbation, 135, 142, 145, 149. 

Medorrhin, 94, 96, 123, 139. 

Medicinal treatment in the eye defects of 

children, 100. 
Mental infancy in man 27 years of age 7 

80. 
Mercurius iod. cum Kali iod., 61. 
Mercurius, 27. 
Mesenteric disease, 31, 134, 
Moral obliquity in children, 141. 
Morbillin., 84. 

Motions, foul-smelling, 73, 74. 
Myopia should first be treated medically, 

101. 



Index, 1 6 r 

Natrum sulphuricum, 60. 

Natrum muriaticum, 112,113. 

Nocturnal fright, 41. 

Nose-bleed in girl of 11 years of age, 75, 

Nux vomica, 29, 56, 61, 84, 95, 139. 

Obliquity, moral, in children, 141. 

Oil, cod-liver, rubbing in of, 8. 

Oil, how to rub in, 13. 

Oil, inrubbings of, in children of puny 

growth, 8. 
Oil, salad, rubbing in of, 9. 
Oil, sweet, rubbing in of , 9. 
Oleum succini non rectificatum, 139. 
One-breastedness, case of, 17. 

Paralysis of lower extremities, 26, 30. 

Pelvic power, 89. 

Peritonitis, 57. 

Pigeon-breastedness, 69. 

Platanus occidentalis, 117. 

Platina, 42, 145. 

Psoricum, 20, 95, 140. 

Psoriuum, 22, 29, 42, 56, 60, 131, 132, 

137- 

Pulsatilla, 29, 32, 46, 55, 77, 95, 119, 



1 62 Index. 



Puny children, i. 
Puny growth, 31, 41, 52, 64, 67. 
Puny little boy, case of, 31. 
Pyrogenium, 42, 43. 

Rickets, 67. 
Ringworm, diffuse, 67. 
Ringworm of shoulder, 64. 
Ringworm, suppressed, blights organ- 
isms, 38. 
Rubia tinctoria, 56. 

Sabina, 42, 55, 145. 
Salad oil, rubbing in of, 9, 11. 
Sandow, intellectual, impossible, 91. 
Sanguinaria, 21. 
Saw palmetto, 54. 
Shingles, 23, 25. 
Shoulder, ringworm of, 64. 
Silica, 133. 
Silicea, 29, 136. 
Simpson, Sir James. Y., 8. 
Smell, imperfect sense of, 75. 
Spectacles are for the organically irreme- 
diable, no. 



Index. 163 

Spectacles in the eye defects of children , 

100. 
Spider nsevi, 52. 
Spinal curvature, 48, 52. 
Spleen, chronic swelling of, 57. 
Strabismus or squint curable by medicine, 

101. 
Stunted children, treatment of, 1. 
Stunted girl, case of, 55. 
Stunted growth, 48. 
Stunted little maid, case of, 39. 
Stuttering, 30. 
Sulphur, 113, 114. 
Sweet oil, rubbing in of, 9. 

Taciturn boy, case of, 44. 

Teeth and eyes, arrested development of, 

107. 
Teeth, case of total absence of front 

upper incisors, 73. 
Teeth, rudimentary, in boy of 11 years 

of age, 69. 
Teucrium, 21. 
Thuja, 19, 20, 22, 27, 28, 36, 37, 42, 46, 

49, 52, 54, 55) 60, 64, 70, 76, 84, 



164 Ivdex. 

85, 109, 116, 120, 122, 132, 137, 

H5, 150. 
Toothlessness, 67. 
Trifolium pratense, 32, 
Trillin, 121. 
Tub. test., 49, 64, 71. 

Ugliness, 67. 

Urine, incontinence of, 122. 

Urtica urens, in, 112, 113. 

Vaccination causing constitutional blight, 

35- 
Vaccinin, 21. 
1 ' Vaccinosis and its cure by Thuja," by 

Dr. Burnett, 19, 150. 
Vaccinosis is a very real disease, 151. 
Vaccinosis, pent up, 25. 
Variolin, 23, 126, 127. 
Viscum album, 54. 

Wetting of bed, 71, 73, 122, 124, 142. 
Woman, new, 89, 91. 

Zincum aceticum, 84. 



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